Seablindness: How Political Neglect Is Choking American Seapower And What To Do About It
by Seth Cropsey /
2017 / English / EPUB
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The challenges to American security in the Western Pacific, the
seas that surround Europe, and the Persian Gulf are growing. At
the same time, U.S. military commanders seek more naval forces to
protect America's interest in the safe transit of American goods,
deterrence in a proliferating world, and the defense of our key
allies. At the same time U.S. defense budgets are shrinking.
American seapower has not been as small as it is today since
before World War I. Unless reversed, U.S. seapower will continue
its decline into the indefinite future as politicians ignore the
widening gulf between the cost of modernizing and expanding
American seapower, and the resources devoted to this most
strategic arm of the nation's defense.
The challenges to American security in the Western Pacific, the
seas that surround Europe, and the Persian Gulf are growing. At
the same time, U.S. military commanders seek more naval forces to
protect America's interest in the safe transit of American goods,
deterrence in a proliferating world, and the defense of our key
allies. At the same time U.S. defense budgets are shrinking.
American seapower has not been as small as it is today since
before World War I. Unless reversed, U.S. seapower will continue
its decline into the indefinite future as politicians ignore the
widening gulf between the cost of modernizing and expanding
American seapower, and the resources devoted to this most
strategic arm of the nation's defense.Seablindness
Seablindness
explains the dilemma. It looks at the consequences of neglect
including the effect of increased deployments on families, global
scenarios set in the immediate future, the views of America's
most knowledgeable military officers, the anxious reactions of
U.S. allies, and hard facts to show how a lack of political will
is dismantling the nation's global reach and with it, our
position as the world's great power.
explains the dilemma. It looks at the consequences of neglect
including the effect of increased deployments on families, global
scenarios set in the immediate future, the views of America's
most knowledgeable military officers, the anxious reactions of
U.S. allies, and hard facts to show how a lack of political will
is dismantling the nation's global reach and with it, our
position as the world's great power.