Building Partners' Capacity: The Thousand-Ship Navy

Abstract

In the fall of 2005, Admiral Michael G. Mullen, the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, challenged the world's maritime nations to raise what he called a "thousand-ship navy" to provide for the security of the maritime domain in the twenty-first century. Speaking at the Seventeenth International Seapower Symposium at the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Mullen candidly admitted to the assembled chiefs of navy and their representatives from seventy-five countries that "the United States Navy cannot, by itself, preserve the freedom and security of the entire maritime domain. It must count on assistance from like-minded nations interested in using the sea for lawful purposes and precluding its use for others that threaten national, regional, or global security."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA519224

Entities

People

  • Ronald E. Ratcliff

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Asia
  • Coast Guard
  • Geographic Regions
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Maritime Domain Awareness
  • Maritime Security
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies