American sea power in the contemporary security environment
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Abenheim, Donald
Gingeras, Ryan
Russell, James A.
Wirtz, James J.
Young, Thomas-Durrell
Twomey, Christopher
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2018
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Taylor & Francis
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This article assesses the relevance of US seapower in the contemporary security environment. This paper builds upon a rich literature on sea power, strategy, and maritime operations to assess recent factors and emerging geostrategic dynamics that are likely to affect American maritime strategy, while keeping sight of the principles that will endure regardless of shifting domestic and international politics. It places the application of sea power in an historic and strategic context to inform the policy choices that confront the administration in wielding elements of national power to further U.S. interests around the world. These issues come to the fore as the Trump Administration is seeking to expand the size of the Navy, with various proposals to increase the number of ships in the fleet to 350 ves- sels. The article presents these issues to highlight the building blocks avail- able and the challenges faced by the United States as it seeks to reinvigorate its maritime strategy in the 21st century.
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The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.1080/01495933.2018.1526566.
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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14 p.
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Donald Abenheim et al. “American Sea Power in the Contemporary Security Environment.” Comparative Strategy 37, no. 5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1080/01495933.2018.1526566.
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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.