Strategic Homeport was a plan developed by the then Secretary of the Navy John Lehman for building new naval bases for the U.S. Navy. It was proposed as part of the 600-ship Navy plan of the Reagan Administration. It called for the construction of new ports for existing and newly commissioned ships. The plan was based on five strategic principles:[1]
- force dispersal to complicate Soviet targeting
- battlegroup integrity
- wider industrial base utilization
- logistics suitability
- geographic considerations such as reduced transit times to likely operating areas
The program was devised in part to achieve a political goal: to build support for the naval expansion program though the promise of new naval bases.[2][3]
The program enjoyed broad support both in Congress and in the Reagan Administration.[citation needed]
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- ↑ "Ports and Harbors". GlobalSecurity.org. GlobalSecurity.org. 2010. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/port-intro.htm. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
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