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Article: Smarter Security for Smaller Budgets: Shaping Tomorrow's Navy and Coast Guard Maritime Security Capabilities
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- The Officer
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Reserve Officers Association Jul/Aug 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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National Capabilities for Maritime Security
The likelihood of major combat operations at sea has diminished significantly for the next two to three decades. In its place, maritime security operations against numerous non-military, non-traditional, asymmetric threats-terrorists, criminals, pirates, smugglers, and assorted miscreants-are highly likely. These threats must be defeated, preferably at their origin, or well before they reach America's shores. This new national security environment places much greater emphasis on maritime security or constabulary operations for the purpose of "good order and discipline" at sea.
The U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard are among the federal agencies ...