Strategic Homeport

Strategic Homeport was a plan developed in the 1980s by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman for building new U.S. Navy bases within the continental United States. 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]

  1. force dispersal to complicate Soviet targeting
  2. battlegroup integrity
  3. wider industrial base utilization
  4. logistics suitability
  5. 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.

Stations

Stations opened under the program include:

gollark: ~~No, it's just China being authoritarian and people don't like it.~~ oops wrong channel.
gollark: The US has problems but I don't think they would be fixed by being more authoritarian.
gollark: China is baaaasically an evil authoritarian regime.
gollark: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHADJsgHGASHgfjashfgashjfas
gollark: China is also a bad authoritarian regime which does "imperialism" and also data harvesting from people.

References
  1. Lewis, Billy L. (1992). "Strategic Homeporting: National Strategy or Bureaucratic Politics?" (PDF). National War College. p. 1. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  2. "Ports and Harbors". GlobalSecurity.org. GlobalSecurity.org. 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  3. Lewis, Billy L. (1992). "Strategic Homeporting: National Strategy or Bureaucratic Politics?" (PDF). National War College. p. 3. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
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