Black Sea littoral military operations - environment impact

Abstract

The firstobjective of this article is to highlight the main features of the Black Sea environmentfrom the perspective of the military littoral operations.Variousoceanographic data, especially wind and wave data coming from observations or numericalmodelswere analyzed in order to find out the aspects which impact on the military littoral operations as a whole, as also the equipment, sensors, personnel or tactics. The present paper also gives some tactical guidance regarding planning and executing such operations and draw a comparison between the littoral battle space and open-sea warfare.