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This today, The Navy Applies PNM To Its Future. Snip follows:
Admiral Mullen must have read ìPentagonís New Mapî, as heís incorporating PNM related ideas into his new strategy for the Fleet with this Leviathan/Sys Admin force in the making. The ìLeviathanî force, the ECG, can go ashore and launch raids (like punitive expeditions or counterterrorism operations) or incorporate the use of lethal force to stabilize the situation (like in a war-ravaged coastal city in a place like Liberia, Indonesia or Mexico) to prepare for the deployment of the larger Sys Admin force (corpsmen, Seabees, logistics types (SKs-storekeepers), master at arms (the military police of the Navy) to begin humanitarian aid or short-term peacekeeping.
The scope of the Navyís operations overseas in the future will increasingly call for a Navy that is able to conduct brown-water ops (requiring vessels capable of traversing coastal waterways with relative ease as well as on occasion certain in-land waterways) as well as ashore operations.