Wanted: A Doctrine for the U.S. Coast Guard as an Instrument of National Security
Abstract
The U.S. Coast Guard needs a doctrine to guide its relationship with national security. The purpose of this paper is to analyze that relationship, and to demonstrate why doctrine strongly recommends itself as a powerful tool for focusing thinking about the Coast Guard as an instrument of national security. The paper examines the problems of framing an analysis of the civil- military, multi-mission Coast Guard in light of the various connotations of national security; and derives fundamental understandings-which would otherwise be provided by doctrine--were it available. The end product is a skeletal doctrine based on the Coast Guard--national security analysis. The paper concludes that national security is central to the Coast Guard's purpose, that problems from lack of doctrine plague the Coast Guard, and that it is in the interest of the Coast Guard to develop a Service doctrine built on the theme of national security Coast Guard, National Security, Doctrine
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 13, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA249843
Entities
People
- Ty G. Waterman
Organizations
- Naval War College