One of them is this: a determined and surreptitious sealift by a small fleet of Libyan boats.
A more fundamental debate is needed, looking not just at time spent training for combat but also at factors like air and sealift capacity and the availability of appropriate equipment.
Spaghetti strands on the screens show the routes of every cargo plane flying for the Air Mobility Command, every ship of the Military Sealift Command and information on trucks and rail cars working for the Military Traffic Management Command.
While the AFP awaits the delivery of the two Strategic Sealift Vessels from Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL, with planned delivery on track for May 2016 and May 2017, respectively, embarking with US Marines onboard US Navy ships is one of the only current opportunities they have to train in amphibious maneuver (Rahmat 2015).
However, today's expansive security landscape requires an integrated approach with all agencies; the military, because of its airlift and sealift capabilities, is uniquely placed to play a role in helping to build resilience, integrated, of course, with civilian agencies and NGOs.
"Sealift is by far the better prepared of all the capabilities that we have," said Gen. John W. Handy of the Air Force, chief of the Transportation Command.
An all fiberglass decking panel has been designed to the requirements of the trilateral code for military bridging and the circular of requirements for new construction strategic sealift ships.
Rapid sealift and airlift capabilities coupled with agreements allowing the use of bases in allied nations and, potentially, pre-positioned supplies are a dramatically less expensive and less inflammatory alternative to maintaining permanent bases overseas.
The devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013 highlighted critical capability shortcomings in airlift and sealift within the AFP that limited their ability to respond rapidly to the humanitarian crisis (Jacobs 2013).
Within days of the earthquake, Latham and his son sent separate e-mails to the Military Sealift Command, offering their services.
