Research for Maritime Strategy
This study is part of a broader effort to provide analytic support to the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategy and Policy Division (OPNAV N51) in its development of appropriate ideas for a potential “refreshment” of the basic maritime strategy document A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (CS 21) signed in October 2007 by the heads of the three maritime services.
The U.S. Navy promulgated over 35 “capstone” strategy, policy, concept and vision documents between 1970 and 2010, to provide guidance to the service and explain its value to its civilian political leaders as well as to external audiences. This volume provides introductory, historical, analytic, background and supplementary material useful in understanding Navy strategy, in slide handout format.
This volume describes and analyzes (in slide handout format) the major U.S. Navy capstone documents of the first decade of the 21st century: Sea Power 21 and the Global CONOPS, Naval Power 21, the Naval Operating Concept for Joint Operations (NOCJO), the Fleet Response Plan (FRP), the Naval Operations Concepts (NOCs) of 2006 and 2010, Navy Strategic Plans (NSPs) and Navy Strategic Guidance (NSG) in support of POMs 08, 10, 12, and 13, and PR 11, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (CS 21), and Naval Doctrine Publication 1 (NDP 1): Naval Warfare.
The U.S. Navy promulgated over 35 “capstone” strategy, policy, concept and vision documents between 1970 and 2010, to provide guidance to the service and explain its value to its civilian political leaders as well as to external audiences. This volume presents graphics that illustrate the context within which these documents were written, over the entire 40-year span, including general global and national political, economic, military, naval, inter-service and academic events and trends, in slide handout format.
The U.S. Navy promulgated over 35 “capstone” strategy, policy, concept and vision documents between 1970 and 2010, to provide direction to the service and explain its value to its civilian political leaders as well as to external audiences. This volume compares and contrasts these documents in a number of dimensions of form and substance.
For easier use, this volume enlarges some of the graphics from The U.S. Navy in the World (1970-2010): Context for U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts: Volume I.
For easier use, this volume enlarges some of the graphics from U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts (1970-2010): Comparisons, Contrasts, and Changes: Volume I, (MISC D0026422.A1/Final, December 2011).
This volume describes and analyzes (in slide handout format) the major U.S. Navy capstone documents of the 1980s: Eight successive versions of The Maritime Strategy, including 5 declassified and 3 unclassified documents.
On August 4, 2011, CNA convened a conference of leading international security, foreign policy, and maritime strategy experts at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to examine U.S. grand and naval strategy in light of new domestic and international dynamics, and to discuss the strategic principles that should inform the Nation and its naval services in the coming decades.
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