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U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts (1970-2010): A Brief Summary
December 1, 2011

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 summary volume provides a thumbnail description of each major document, in slide handout format.

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U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts (1970-2010): Comparisons, Contrasts, and Changes: Volume I
December 1, 2011

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.

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U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts (1970-1980): Strategy, Policy, Concept, and Vision Documents
December 1, 2011

This volume describes and analyzes (in slide handout format) the major U.S. Navy capstone documents of the 1970s: Project SIXTY, Missions of the Navy, Strategic Concepts for the U.S. Navy (NWP 1), SEAPLAN 2000, and The Future of U.S. Sea Power.

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U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts: Introduction, Background and Analyses
December 1, 2011

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.

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American Grand Strategy and Seapower Conference Report
November 30, 2011

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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U.S.-Greek Naval Relations Begin: Antipiracy Operations in the Aegean Sea
June 1, 2003
This paper discusses the U.S. Navy's aggressive campaign in the Aegean Sea against Greek pirates who interfered with American shipping during the third decade of the nineteenth century. This campaign was not a particularly important one in the overall history of the U.S. navy, nor did it strongly influence subsequent Greek-American naval relations. Those relations - outlined in the paper - have been largely amicable and even quite close at times, especially following the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless, the Independence for Ottoman Turkey, and of the republic in North America that had itself won its independence less than a century earlier.
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Forward ... From the Start: The U.S. Navy & Homeland Defense: 1775-2003
February 1, 2003
Written in the wake of the "9-11" terrorist attacks, this short paper lays out and draws conclusions from the long history of U.S. Navy involvement in what are now called "homeland defense" operations. Topics covered in the survey include: The submersibles and gunboats of the Revolution and the War of 1812; the creation (and subsequent reorientation forward) of a Home Squadron in 1840s; the innovative naval homeland defense systems of the Confederate Navy during the Civil War; the role of inshore U.S. Navy monitors during and after the Civil War; the massive failure of American homeland defense at Pearl Harbor in 1941; offshore antisubmarine warfare during both world wars; and Cold War U.S. Navy continental air defense and coastal underwater surveillance efforts. Analysis of the historical record shows that U.S. Navy forward offensive deployments have almost always taken precedence over homeland defense efforts; that naval systems and organizations originally developed for homeland defense usually migrate to other roles; and that naval homeland defense operations have almost always been embedded in larger joint, inter-agency and total force efforts, usually involving the U.S. Coast Guard. (A shorter version of this paper was published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings May 2003 edition).
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