Revitalizing the Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower
Abstract
The U.S. Navy released its "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower" in 2007. Written in conjunction with the U.S. Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, the strategy defines six core capabilities that will achieve the overarching maritime and national strategic end-states of preventing war and building partnerships. The six core capabilities are as follows: Forward Presence, Deterrence, Sea Control, Power Projection, Maritime Security, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response. The CNO reaffirmed the Navy's commitment to the precepts of the "Cooperative Strategy" as recently as October 2010 in a memorandum entitled "Executing the Maritime Strategy." The United States is now beginning to redeploy units from Iraq and Afghanistan in an effort to end years of combat operations in the Middle East while simultaneously examining every avenue possible for minimizing defense expenditures. With the reduced number of deployed combat forces, the U.S. Navy is likely to become the first choice of policymakers for foreign engagement, humanitarian response, and signaling national interests. Given this probability and the looming era of fiscal retraction, it is time to update the 2007 strategy, and to define how it supports the National Security Strategy, what assets the Navy requires to achieve its missions, and how the Navy will partner with allied nations to maximize its capabilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA560174
Entities
People
- Charles C. Moore Ii
Organizations
- United States Army War College