7Advantage at Sea
II. INTEGRATED ALL-DOMAIN
NAVAL POWER
T
he Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard have a proud heritage of serving and ghting
together, but today’s security environment demands deeper cooperation. Integrated All-
Domain Naval Power—synchronizing the complementary capabilities, capacities, roles,
investments, and authorities of the Naval Service—multiplies the traditional inuence of sea
power to produce a more competitive and lethal total force. Together, we expand our ability
to deliver effects across the competition continuum and in all domains: from the sea oor to
space; across the world’s oceans, littorals, and coastal areas ashore; and in the information
environment, cyber domain, and electromagnetic spectrum.
Integrated naval forces are uniquely suited for operations across the competition
continuum. The Coast Guard’s mission prole makes it the preferred maritime security
partner for many nations vulnerable to coercion. Integrating its unique authorities—law-
enforcement, sheries protection, marine safety, and maritime security—with Navy and
Marine Corps capabilities expands the options we provide to joint force commanders for
cooperation and competition. In conict, Navy-Marine Corps integration expands our ability
to control the seas, as we combine distributed eet operations and mobile, expeditionary
formations with sea control and sea denial capabilities. These operations are guided by Naval
Service concepts—Distributed Maritime Operations, Littoral Operations in a Contested
Environment, and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations—that combine the effects of
sea-based and land-based res, enabling our forces to mass combat power at times and
places of our choosing. Closer integration allows our forces to distribute more broadly and
increase our operational unpredictability across the competition continuum by varying our
timing, location, domain, forces, and activities.
Naval forces’ unique attributes generate options and decision space for national
leadership, providing credible deterrence and prompt crisis response worldwide, regardless
of access to overseas bases. Every day, the Naval Service operates on the front lines of global
competition, interacting with China’s and Russia’s forces in every domain. Agile, mobile,
expeditionary, scalable, sustainable, versatile, networked, and lethal, we provide critical
advantages over our competitors through our ability to use the vast oceans to maneuver
and sustain our forces globally. Working alongside our allies and partners, our operations,
exercises, and engagements must set the conditions for a future in which our rivals are
deterred from malign behaviors and aggression—and, if deterrence fails, a future in which
they are defeated.
Multi-mission by design, the Naval Service leaves home port outtted for the
unpredictable. We have crucial peacetime missions, including responding to disasters,
preserving maritime security, safeguarding global commerce, protecting human life, and
extending American inuence. We underwrite the use of global waterways to achieve national
security objectives through diplomacy, law enforcement, economic statecraft, and, when
required, force. We embody America’s resolve, its might, and its commitment to uphold the
values of a free and open order.