Will Globalization Sink the Navy?
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Wirtz, James J.
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2002
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The September 11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have
provided a new context for reassessing the relationship between globalization,
naval strategy, and U.S. foreign and defense policy. This reassessment suggests
that despite the opportunities created by globalization for the U.S. Navy, strategic
thinking became moribund, or at best focused on simply preserving funding and
force structure, in the aftermath of the Cold War. September 11, however,
suggests that globalization and the information revolution have produced more
than prosperity and democratization. The same trends that have empowered
people of good will also have empowered global actors with sinister ambitions
and objectives. The rise of a new transnational threat to the United States has
created the need for new thinking about how the Navy can better protect
America. There is a need for a new vision of the Navy role in homeland defense.
National security requirements have created a real demand for naval
strategyâ not simply the budget and program-justifying briefings that have passed
for official naval thought in recent years.
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National Security Affairs
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Globalization and Maritime Power, Chapter 30
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.