Volume 58, Number 3 (2005) Summer

A series of images—variously contemporary, conceptual, and futuristic—that have been produced for and now support discussions of sea basing, one of four fundamental elements of the U.S. Navy’s Seapower 21 vision. The broader issue of operational military bases—in effect, the context of the modern sea-basing concept—is the subject of our lead article, “Thinking about Basing,” by Robert E. Harkavy of Pennsylvania State University. Two more such images, portraying “consolidation” of stores and their transfer ashore, illustrate Dr. Harkavy’s text.