Which concept is designed to enable the Marine Corps to project sea-based power by creating dispersed, mobile bases for sustained operations from the sea and distributed actions ashore?

• A. Distributed Maritime Operations
• B. Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations
• C. Seabasing at Scale
• D. Amphibious Ready Group

Answer: (B)

Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations center on establishing dispersed, mobile bases that Marines can quickly set up on islands or coastal terrain to project power from the sea and sustain operations ashore. These expeditionary advanced bases are intentionally austere and relocatable, allowing forces to spread out, reduce target intensity, and maintain sea-based reach while conducting distributed missions inland. The idea is to keep the advantage of naval maneuver and long-range fires while avoiding reliance on fixed, permanent bases.

Distributed Maritime Operations is about spreading naval力量 across the battlespace to complicate adversary targeting and enable sea control, but it focuses on how ships and aircraft maneuver at sea rather than establishing mobile bases ashore. Seabasing at Scale envisions using sea-based logistics and afloat capacity to support operations, but the emphasis is on basing from the sea at scale rather than the specific concept of creating and operating dispersed, movable EABs. An Amphibious Ready Group is a ready-made force package for amphibious missions, not the base-centric approach of dispersed, mobile forward bases.