The Navy at a Tipping Point: Maritime Dominance at Stake?
Published Date: March 1, 2010
This paper was a quick response to an OPNAV Quadrennial Integration Group (QIG) question as to how Navy could be postured, deployed and structured to maintain dominance and influence (the ability to deter and reassure on a global scale) as a "global navy."
Project Description and Background
- Sponsor: OPNAV N00X
- OPNAV N00X issues for analysis
- Evaluation of the characteristics of a “globally influential navy”
- At what point might the USN cease to be globally influential?
- Impacts of fiscally constrained force structure?
- Changes to capacity and capability
- Changes to operational practices
- CNA tasks
- Describe what constitutes “global influence”
- Develop a set of characteristics for a globally influential navy
- Deter, reassure, “create effects on a global scale”
- Determine whether various force structures can meet required levels of
capacity and capability to provide influence on a global scale - Provide options for force deployment strategies to maintain global influence
- Determine whether various force structures can meet required levels of
