Commercial Sealift and U.S. National Security

Abstract

American merchant ships and mariners trace their origins to the very inception of the United States, having played major roles in transforming a fledgling nation into a global power. As America has fought her wars, strategic sealift has been crucial in moving equipment and supplies to the foreign shores where Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines have fought and continue to fight the Nation's battles. This paper examines the Nation's predisposed and historic assumption of a link between U.S. National Security and maintaining a U.S. flag merchant marine fleet in today's globalized shipping environment, where lower cost foreign flag registries of convenience dominate the industry and which policy tools are best suited to meet our commercially owned strategic sealift requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA518049

Entities

People

  • Mark P. Dibble

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Governments
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Trade
  • Iraqi-War
  • Maritime Industry
  • Maritime Security
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Transportation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security