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4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 
MODULARIZED OCEAN BASING SYSTEM - A UNITED STATES 
OPTION IN A STRATEGY OF DISCRIMINATE DETERRENCE 
(Circa 2000) : N/A 
6. AUTHOR(S) 
John F. Peel Brahtz 
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION 
Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory REPORT NUMBER 
Port Hueneme, CA 93043-5003 Taos 
9. SPONSORING/ MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES, 10. SPONSORING / MONITORING 
AGENCY REPORT NUMBER 
Sponsoring: Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, 
~ CA 93043 
Monitoring: Naval Postgraduate School, National Security 
Affairs 
11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 
12a. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT 
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 
13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words) 
This report investigates the feasibility of employing MOBS, the Modularized Ocean Basing System, 
as an alternative to fixed land basing overseas. MOBS is a concept for floating bases that could serve 
to project United States power as part of a U.S. forward strategy of "Discriminate Deterrence". The 
requirement for such an alternative to land basing becomes increasingly likely in a typical Third 
World scenario of growing nationalism and denial of extraterritorial rights to the U.S. This trend is 
likely to become amplified following recent changes in the political attitude of Communist Block 
nations and the Soviet Union. 
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14. SUBJECT TERMS — 
MOBS; modularized ocean basing systems; U.S. power projection, circa 
2000; forward basing; deployable basing systems; future basing alternatives, 
17. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION | 18. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION | 19. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION | 20. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT 
OF REPORT OF THIS PAGE OF ABSTRACT 
Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified UL 
NSN 7540-01-280-5500 Standard Form 298 (Rev. 2-89) 
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