This is broadly consistent with the vision for future Amphibious Operations that the Center for Budgetary and Strategic Assessments (CSBA) articulated a recent Fleet Architecture Study ordered by the U.S. Senate to guide future Navy acquisitions and organization. CSBA’s report has the Navy and Marine Corps working together to ensure Navy access by eliminating adversary weapons and sensors in littoral areas through amphibious raids, establishing expeditionary bases for logistics, surveillance, and fire support, and providing direct fire against adversary surface ships. The idea, articulated more directly by CSBA, is to be able to turn islands and archipelagos into barriers against adversary power projection.
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