The Maritime Component of the National Military Strategy

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The New Maritime Strategy
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Agenda

• Importance of the Sea Today
• New Era
• Strategic Environment
• Whats New?
• Maritime Strategic Concept
• Key Principles
• Maritime Strategic Imperatives
• Core Elements of Maritime Power
• Strategy Influencing Resources
• Navy Adaptive Planning Process

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Importance of the Sea Today

• 90 of the worlds commerce travels by sea
• The vast majority of the worlds population (80)
  lives within a few hundred miles of the oceans
• Nearly three quarters of the planet is covered by
  water

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New Era

• New Global System Emerging
• New Players New Poles
• New Competition Especially for Resources
• New Rules of the Game, But No Experience
• New Challenges and Dangers
• New Organizing Principles
• New Climate
• New Goal Multi-polarity and Stability

Global System in Transition Unsettled,
Potentially Dangerous
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Strategic Environment

• Speed and accessibility of information generates
  sensitivity to human suffering
• Disadvantaged aware of their condition
• Extremist ideologies increasingly attractive
• Climate Instability
• New winners and losers
• New natural disasters
• New sources of conflict
• Maritime Nations will exert increasing claims of
  sovereignty over previously unclaimed expanses of
  the Ocean

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Strategic Environment

• Weak governments, lagging economies, religious
  extremism, and youth bulges may contribute to
  conflict in certain regions
• The appetite for nuclear weapons will grow among
  both nation states and non-state actors
• Governments, NGOs, international organizations,
  and the private sector will necessarily form
  partnerships to address emerging challenges

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Whats New?

• Preventing War is as important as Winning Wars
• Raises the importance of cooperative maritime
  relationships as the basis for global maritime
  security.
• Elevates Humanitarian Assistance Disaster
  Relief to core elements of maritime power.
• Weve always done this, but now well plan to do
  it
• Greater synergy of all elements of national
  power- Diplomatic, Informational, Military,
  Economic Joint, Interagency and NGO cooperation.
  

Our challenge is to apply seapower in a manner
that protects U.S. vital interests even as it
promotes greater collective security, stability,
and trust.
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Whats New?

• All three Sea Services were involved, with the
  final document signed by the three Service Chiefs
  
• Developed in an open and inclusive manner, a true
  competition of ideas that cast a wide net.
• The American Public was engaged through a series
  of Conversations with the Country and Executive
  Seminars
• A Global Systems view
• US vital interests are best served by forward
  deployed maritime forces capable of preventing,
  deterring, limiting, localizing and mitigating
  disruptions in the global system.
• This global system consists of the interrelated
  and interdependent subsystems of trade, finance,
  law, information and immigration

Major power war, regional conflict, terrorism,
lawlessness and natural disastersall have the
potential to threaten U.S. national security and
world prosperity.
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The Maritime Strategic Concept

• There is a global system of interdependence,
  critical to the prosperity of the American people
  and the greater global community.
• The system is subject to a spectrum of disruption
  from major war to natural disasters
• Maritime forces
• Defend our homeland and win our nations wars
• Play a unique and critical role in preventing and
  mitigating disruptive shocks to the global system
  
• Foster relationships that help sustain confidence
  in the global system and allow it to flourish

Although our forces can surge when necessary to
respond to crises, trust and cooperation cannot
be surged.
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Key Principles

• The American people want us to remain strong
  they want us to protect them and our homeland,
  and they want us to work with partners around the
  world to prevent war.
• USN, USMC, USCG will act across the full range of
  military operations to
• Secure the United States from direct attack
• Secure strategic access and retain global freedom
  of action
• Strengthen existing and emerging alliances and
  partnerships, and establish favorable security
  conditions.

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Key Principles

• Our people -- our Sailors, Marines and
  Coastguardsmen -- are central to this strategy,
  and will make the difference in its
  implementation. They are the ones who will create
  the strategic relationships with partners
  worldwide.

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Key Principles

• The Maritime Strategy reaffirms the need for
  regionally concentrated, forward deployed combat
  power while placing a new emphasis on globally
  distributed, mission-tailored maritime forces.
• Credible combat power will be continuously
  postured in the Western Pacific and the Arabian
  Gulf/Indian Ocean to protect our vital interests,
  assure our friends and allies of our continuing
  commitment to regional security, and deter and
  dissuade potential adversaries and peer
  competitors.
• The sea services will establish a persistent
  global presence using distributed forces that are
  organized by mission and comprised of integrated
  Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard capabilities.
  

Maritime forces will be employed to build
confidence and trust among nations through
collective security efforts that focus on common
threats and mutual interests.
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Maritime Strategic Imperatives
Regionally Concentrated, Credible Combat Power
Win our nations wars
Deter major power war
Limit regional conflict
Secure Our Homeland, Citizens, and Interests
around the World
Contribute to homeland defense in depth
Prevent or contain local disruptions
Foster sustain cooperative relationships
Globally Distributed, Mission-Tailored Maritime
Forces
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Core Elements of Maritime Power
Although the Sea Services conduct many missions,
the following six capabilities comprise the core
of U.S. maritime power and reflect an increase in
emphasis on those activities that prevent war and
build partnerships

• Forward Presence
• Deterrence
• Sea Control
• Power Projection
• Maritime Security
• Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Response

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Strategy Influencing Resources
The Navy Strategic Plan translates the critical
elements of the Maritime Strategy into
programmatic guidance
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Navy Adaptive Planning Process

• Integrated, flexible, sustainable strategic
  planning process
• Success in an uncertain, changing environment
  with unknown futures
• Aligns integrates stakeholders planning
  activities, resource assumptions decisions
• Improves quality efficiency of strategic
  planning efforts

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Conclusion

• Inherent qualities of maritime forces creates
  more options
• Across full range of operations
• Diplomatic, Information, Military and Economic
  (DIME) Spectrum
• Credible and flexible forward deployed maritime
  power provides pivotal ability to expand and
  sustain collaborative relationships
• Essential to todays tightly coupled yet
  multi-polar global system
• Maritime Forces are critical to national
  aspirations and provide unique capabilities to
  the joint force commanders

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Discussion