The New Maritime Strategy: Responses to Today’s Reactions

BySteeljawscribe

            Good evening, SJS readers.  I’ve spent a good bit of the day scouring the internet for reaction to the Maritime Strategy, and I thought I’d take some time to give some thoughts on issues raised on this blog and others.  Climate change.  There has been some positive reaction to our discussion of climate change,…

The New Maritime Strategy: Precedence of Strategic Concept and Resource Allocation

BySteeljawscribe

Quite a bit of back-and-forth over the new MS and lack of discussion over force structure/resource allocation.  Not the first time this has been confronted though and the following paragraph, drawn from a 1954 article in Proceedings by Samuel P. Huntington may be particularly germane to the current discussion: "A second element of a military…