NATO’s Selective Sea Blindness: Assessing the Alliance’s New Navies The accusation of sea blindness is usually levelled at the general public not the state writ large, but this article by Thomas-Durell Young starts the conversation with governments and institutions. Young is a programme manager for the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the US Naval Postgraduate School, so one might assume that he has studied this interface in some detail. Here he draws a distinction between the ‘old’ navies of NATO, and those ‘new’ navies of the more recently joined member states of eastern Europe. He fin…
