Forward Operating Site

A Forward Operating Site ( FOS) is in the language of the United States, the middle stage of a military base outside the mother country. It involves bases that are used primarily as a base of operations for regularly changing units. The infrastructure of the equipment itself is to function with minimal effort, but keep ready the necessary services for military troops with high combat readiness, which run from there operations in the region. Limited to FOSS ready also hold ancillary equipment to deploy in a short time much larger organizations there and to get operational. In addition, they offer the opportunity to train local soldiers and police units.

The FOSS go back to a concept that U.S. President George W. Bush unveiled in August 2004 for the deployment of the armed forces of the United States. It looks to 2014 before a withdrawal of U.S. forces, in particular from Western Europe and a relocation to the USA and to a lesser degree in other states. Central elements of this new deployment concept are the Foss parent Main Operating Bases ( MOB) and Cooperative Security Locations them downstream (CSL ).

The FOSS are arranged to the Andes in the so-called "arc of instability " ( "arc of instability " ) of West Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific Ocean. Each is firmly subordinated to a MOB. Decorated in October 2002 Camp Le Monier in Djibouti served as a template for the following FOSS. Examples of FOSS "Eagle Base " near Tuzla in Bosnia, Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom, the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, the airbases Thumrait and Masirah in Oman.