Research for Post-Cold War

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 has long been assigned the mission of helping to protect the Sea Lines of Communication (SLOCs) of Southeast Asia. During the Cold War, the mission was viewed in strategic military terms: the U.S. needed to be able to move military supplies through the region in crises, and deny the SLOCs to the Soviets. Now that the Soviet threat has diminished, what national economic interests are at stake? In early 1995, Secretary of State Christopher issued a warning to the nations quarreling over the Spratly Islands. The U.S. does not take sides in this dispute, but will not accept the disruption of trade passing through the South China Sea. This study shows that the American position is based on direct national economic interest, as well as quasi-altruistic concern for the welfare of other nations.

As our nation's military continues to draw down and reshape itself, two important resources can be strategically reinvested to strengthen youth: 1) military personnel either serving or transitioning out, and 2) military facilities. The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) has examined these ideas within its Veterans Transition and Defense Conversion Project. This briefing summarizes Phase II of the project. It builds on Phase I and presents CNA's analysis of the concept 'Strategic Reinvestment to Strengthen Youth.' The goal of the study is to fine strategic opportunities to strengthen youth by selectively reinvesting military resources. CNA was eager to investigate this issue for several reasons. It saw a genuine opportunity to help shape some of the definitions of national security emerging from the ongoing debate on defense policy for the post-Cold War era. This shifting of the discourse to now include domestic aspects of national security coincides with a substantial and long-term military reduction. Therefore, a major policy objective entails tailoring that draw down's social impact to address some of the newly emerging domestic security.