| The Canadian Forces (CF) is currently undergoing major changes guided by the Chief of Defence Staff's (CDS) vision. This vision requires both the refocusing and creation of CF capabilities. As part of this evolution the CDS envisions a Standing Contingency Task Force (SCTF) consisting of integrated maritime, aerospace and land forces that could be deployed on ten days notice to conduct an amphibious operation in an uncertain environment and have the land forces ashore supported for thirty days. This capability is relatively unknown to the CF and the concept of seabasing has yet to be analyzed using techniques available to the Canadian operations research community.; The purpose of this research is to provide insight into the parameters that impact on the ability of a seabase to re-supply a landing force. This will be accomplished using a three-step process. The first step will be to investigate the methodologies used by business and military organizations to solve similar problems. Second, to discover and/or develop a tool/tools that would enable the analysis of the deployed support requirements of the Canadian Forces new concept of a rapidly deployable, integrated, expeditionary amphibious force and third to use these tools to provide insights into the proposed option.; This thesis focuses on the following areas of analysis: Given a distance from the seabase to the land units and a number of connectors, is the logistics system able to sustain operations? What is the maximum distance between the seabase and units ashore that is sustainable by surface connectors? and How many connectors are required to support the sustainment at a given distance? These options are explored using discrete event simulation to examine their supportability from the sea as well as to determine the factors that most greatly influence the logistics support of the force ashore. |
