Maritime Strategy: Maintaining America’s Enduring Strategic Advantage
The Interim National Security Strategic Guidance recently released by the White House calls for the United States to strengthen our country’s enduring advantages to prevail in strategic competitions with China or any other nation.
Throughout our Nation’s history, in peace and in war, a strong Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard have conferred important strategic advantages on the United States in the competitive realm of international relations. The Maritime Services have long served to protect the American people, to promote their wellbeing, to preserve their liberties, and to provide a sure foundation for world order.
Does the U.S. Navy Have a Strategy Problem?
Former deputy undersecretary of the Navy and current Hudson Institute analyst Seth Cropsey has aimed a broadside at the U.S. sea services’ latest maritime strategy. Unfortunately, Cropsey’s broadside sails well wide of the mark.
Over at the
Wall Street Journal last week, former deputy undersecretary of the navy and current Hudson Institute analyst Seth Cropseyaims a broadside at the U.S. sea services’ latest maritime strategy, titled
Advantage at Sea. Cropsey’s broadside sails well wide of the mark. Let’s inspect and see if we can correct the fall of shot.
US Navy, Coast Guard Extend Maritime R&D Partnership
Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. April 14, 2021
File photo: Legend-class cutter USCGC Stratton (WMSL 752) and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS
McCampbell (DDG 85) in the Coral Sea in 2019. (Photo: John Harris / U.S. Navy)
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, Calif. and the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) in New London, Conn. agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on April 14 extending for five more years their previous three-year direct collaboration on joint research projects and exchanges.
The extension is a result of the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy (TSMS) released in December, which underscored the need for joint cooperation in today’s security environment. The emphasis of the MOU is to further optimize joint collaboration for specific research and educational outcomes that directly support defense priorities and Coast Guard statutory missi
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IMAGE: Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) retired Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau and U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center Commanding Officer Capt. Dan Keane sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Apr.. view more
Credit: (Screen capture by NPS Office of University Communications)
As a result of the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy (TSMS) released in December, which underscored the need for joint cooperation in today s security environment, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, Calif. and the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) in New London, Conn. agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Apr. 14 extending their previous three-year direct collaboration on joint research projects and exchanges to five more years. NPS President retired Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau and RDC Commanding Officer Capt. Dan Keane met through an online collaboration tool, virtually, to sign the memo. The emphasis of the MOU is to further optimize joint col
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Document: Department of the Navy Unmanned Campaign Framework
March 16, 2021 12:00 PM
The following is the March 16, 2021, Department of the Navy Unmanned Campaign Framework.
From the report
The National Defense Strategy (NDS) defines “the central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security as the reemergence of long-term, strategic competition” posed by Russia and China. It emphasizes that, “America’s military has no preordained right to victory on the battlefield.” The developing abilities of nearpeer competitors drive the need for increased Naval capability distributed over a wider area. In order to meet the challenges of the future and align with strategic goals defined in the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy, the CNO’s Navigation Plan, and the Commandant’s Planning Guidance, the Navy and Marine Corps must innovate and accelerate delivery of credible and reliable unmanned systems in conjunction with increasingly capable manned platforms into the fleet.