Working Group 13
Charter
Littoral Warfare and Regional Sea Control
(Last Updated 11 July 2002)
Purpose: The purpose of the Littoral
Warfare and Regional Sea Control Working Group is to promote the
exchange of analytical techniques, permit peer review of methods
and results, and provide a means for continued growth of military
operations research and related disciplines as applied to the
littoral warfare and regional sea control missions of the naval
forces. The principle focus of this working group is to examine
littoral warfare and regional sea control in contingency
operations and within the framework of joint warfare.
Discussion: Current national and joint
military strategies and vision provide a framework within which
maritime operations are conducted as a component of joint
warfare. The mission of the Navy and Marine Corps team is to be
prepared to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations from
the sea in support of national interests. The naval services do
do so through two major warfare functions: power projection
ashore and regional sea control. This duality provides a natural,
though not perfect, breakdown for Working Groups 13 and 14. These
warfare functions are necessarily interdependent and the forces
that accomplish them are frequently the same, therefore the need
for close coordination between working group chairs and the
likelihood of one or more joint meetings in areas of common
interest. Analysis of joint operations using naval forces as the
primary, enabling, or supporting forces are appropriate and
desired. Principal naval warfare tasks to be considered in WG13
bear on dominating the littoral battlespace: antisubmarine
warfare (including emphasis on ASW against diesel submarines and
shallow water ASW); mine warfare (including offensive and
defensive mine countermeasures); antisurface warfare (including
emphasis on ASUW against small fast surface vessels); maritime
air defense (including emphasis on ship self defense, area
defense against sea skimmers, and sea-based tactical ballistic
missile defense); combat logistics (including sealift, sealift
protections, and logistics over the shore); and joint command,
control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaisance (C4ISR) related to all of the above.
Other Working Groups: WG13 - Littoral
Warfare and Regional Sea Control conducts joint sessions with
WG14 - Power Projection in matters of broad common interest in
Naval Warfare. In addition, WG13 - Littoral Warfare and Regional
Sea Control is part of Composite Group C - Joint Warfare, and
participates in composite group sessions of common interest with
WG12 - Land & Expeditionary Warfare, WG14 - Power Projection,
Planning & Execution, WG15 - Air Combat Analysis & Combat
ID, WG16 - Special Operations & OOTW, and WG17 - Joint
Campaign Analysis.
