The Department of Defense (DOD) seeks to transform the nation’s armed forces to meet the military challenges of the future. The Navy and the Marine Corps have defined their respective Service visions of transformation in Sea Power 211 and Marine Corps Strategy 21,2 and together they form Naval Power 21,3 the vision of how the naval forces of the United States will be equipped, trained, educated, organized, and employed in the 21st century. Joint Vision 20204 is the DOD vision that defines how the various elements of the DOD, including the naval forces, will operate in global conflicts as a single, integrated war-fighting entity. Many new war-fighting concepts.
