National Policy and the Panoceanic Navy

National Policy and the Panoceanic Navy

10 Mar 26
Posted by: Cdr Jeff Vandenengel USN
53 minutes, 8 seconds read
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With a study of American maritime strategy ranging from Mahan to Huntington, the practitioner author believes that the era of the Panoceanic Navy, focused on competitive sea control and sustained sea denial, has begun. Originally published in the USNI’s Proceedings, March edition. A 50 minute read.

In his 1954 Proceedings article ‘National Policy and the Transoceanic Navy,’ Samuel Huntington defined the elements of a military service. He argued that a service must first determine its strategic concept: how it will implement national policy and defend the nation against a threat. Then, if the public values the service’s intended contributions to national policy, the service can earn the resources necessary to implement its strategic concept. Finally, a service’s organizational structure allows it to group those resources to best implement its strategic concept.[1] Huntington applied that…

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