Strategic Homeport

Strategic Homeport was a plan developed by the then Secretary of the Navy John Lehman for building new naval bases for the U.S. Navy. It was proposed as part of the 600-ship Navy plan of the Reagan Administration. It called for the construction of new ports for existing and newly commissioned ships. The plan was based on five strategic principles:
 * 1) force dispersal to complicate Soviet targeting
 * 2) battlegroup integrity
 * 3) wider industrial base utilization
 * 4) logistics suitability
 * 5) geographic considerations such as reduced transit times to likely operating areas

The program was devised in part to achieve a political goal: to build support for the naval expansion program though the promise of new naval bases.

The program enjoyed broad support both in Congress and in the Reagan Administration.