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Scenario Building
 Defense of Island Nation
 Coastal
 Choke Point Passage
Trapezoid: Needs Analysis
Needs Analysis
Obj Analysis
Alt Generation
Modeling
Analysis
Conclusions
•Attempting to refine the number of potential future operating areas SEA-8 evaluated 3 littoral environments:
   Coastal (shown here off the west coast of Korea)
   Choke point passage (Straits of Hormuz), and
   Defense of an Island Nation (such as Taiwan).
•Exploring each possible scenario along with their surrounding challenges, allowed us to further bound the problem of littoral ASW in 2025.   In the end, the defense of an island nation scenario was found to be the most poignant and perhaps most challenging.  This scenario became the focal point of SEA-8’s research project.
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