(see yesterday’s aticle re.the ’07 end of summer Arctic ice pack edge shrinkage – SJS) RUSSIAN NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICE 23 OCT 07) MOSCOW. (RIA NOVOSTI POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT MAXIM KRANS) … The Arctic is rapidly becoming a scene of "competition and conflict for access to natural resources." This is how it is defined in A Cooperative…
NASA and other satellites monitoring and measuring the extent of the seasonal contraction of the Arctic ice pack have observed the greatest single year contraction in almost thirty years of observations. Illustration (1) below is a plot of the last two years of the ice pack. Illustration two is a composite of this years’ survey (click on…
SECNAV introduced the new MS before the International Seapower Symposium at Newport last week – and the speech is well worth reviewing if you haven’t heard or seen it yet (available here or with highlights here). It is revealing in both the expected expository points re. the new MS as well as emphasis he placed in…
SJS Readers, Another great day on the Maritime Strategy front, including a great back and forth via email with one of the guys I respect most in this town who has some serious problems with the strategy, and some work putting together a series of briefings for flags to take on the road. I continue…
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,…
Ed. As many know by now, the new strategy was released earlier this past week at the Naval War College and has generated a good deal of discussion. The expectation is that the level of that discussion will elevate next week around the blogsphere. In anticipation of that I asked the author if he would…
Ed.: Look for a guest article tomorrow by the officer who led the development of the new Maritime Strategy. Some great insight into the creation process for the discussions that will follow next week. – SJS Green deck – post your trackbacks here.
Preventing War Heads New Strategy: (ASSOCIATED PRESS 17 OCT 07) “In the first major revision of U.S. naval strategy in 25 years, maritime officials said Wednesday they plan to focus more on humanitarian missions and improving international cooperation as a way to prevent conflicts.”
The New Maritime Strategy is finally on the streets — download your copy here (PDF) or here. Some quick takes whilst reviewing (feel free to leave comments below): 6 Core missions (some of which had fallen out of favor in the past, or so it seems): Forward Presence Deterrence Sea Control Power Projection Maritime Security…
John Hattendorf’s latest edited volume — "U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents" — has just been posted in .pdf format on the Naval War College’s website. It is currently at the printer and hard copies will be available at a date to be announced. See http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/newportpapers/documents/NP30JH.pdf This new 1970s volume reproduces 5 documents…
