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1 Introduction: Creating Maritime Security Partnerships in the Twenty-First Century
1 Introduction: Creating Maritime Security Partnerships in the Twenty-First Century
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naval forces would partner with "a diverse array of multinational, federal, state, local, and private sector entities to ensure freedom of navigation, the flow of commerce, and the protection of ocean resources." Furthermore, this concept would bring all nations together to build a global maritime network -- including the sharing of information among all participants -- that would promote security on the seas and enable global, regional, and national prosperity through international cooperation. In response to a request from the former CNO, the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council established the Committee on the "1,000Ship Navy" -- A Distributed and Global Maritime Network for the purpose of conducting a study to examine the technical and operational implications of the 1,000-ship Navy concept.
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As a result, the committee began to use the term "maritime security partnerships" (MSP) for the purposes of this report.
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The committee came to understand that the goals of MSP are to foster dependable expectations of security and peaceful development and the ability to act in concert against common security challenges. Effective MSP would enable partner nations to act locally in their own self-interest, especially to protect national sovereignty, and in the general interest of law and order on the seas.
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for drug traffic in the Caribbean. The Need for Maritime Security Partnerships Attackers and evaders challenge defense and law enforcement in the maritime domain.
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, including port authorities; coastal patrols (12-mile and 24-mile zones) ; capabilities that extend out to the 200-mile limit for EEZ protection; and the more distant warding off of perceived threats (e.g., the international maritime interception operation such as the one in the Persian Gulf or the Operation Active Endeavor of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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There are several levels of sophistication and modernity in the countries and their maritime organizations (navies and other organizations involved in law enforcement in territorial waters) that would be involved in MSP, and generally there is close cooperation between them.
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Boat people are making their way from West Africa to Europe through way stations like the Cape Verde Islands. The United States and the other advanced nations are going to have to convince the developing countries to give these maritime security efforts priority along with efforts to achieve economic and social development.
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One way to reduce the space in which trouble could See National Research Council, 2000, Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.; National Research Council, 2005, FORCEnet Implementation Strategy, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.; National Research Council, 2006, C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.; National Research Council, 2007, Distributed Remote Sensing for Naval Undersea Warfare: Abbreviated Version, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
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The third set of considerations varies from highly capable governments with excellent maritime capabilities all the way to not very capable governments with poor or nonexistent maritime capabilities. While surveillance and information-sharing capabilities can be made available worldwide, it is the countries themselves that are ultimately responsible for moving about on the surface of the seas to carry out enforcement.
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Figure 1.2 arrays these considerations, from local through regional to global arrangements along one axis and from independent country efforts in their own sovereign waters to fully integrated efforts with other countries and international organizations along the other. For illustrative purposes a number of the organizations and international conventions that operate in the maritime domain to date are shown.
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The U.S. Navy obviously proposed the 1,000-ship Navy, but it is not just a Navy effort, especially given the many maritime organizations (navies, coast guards, and so forth)
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While there might be Coordinated Plus action shared situation emphasis awareness Strengthened Multilateral Strengthened Partnerships Partnerships arrangements, regional or Info subregional Enablers Info Enablers Current Current Center of Bilateral Center of Gravity Info arrangements Gravity Enablers FIGURE 1.3 Current and emerging international maritime security partnerships. Figure 3-1, editable, b&w R01141
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naval and maritime assets with ad hoc coalitions -- the Cooperating Nations Information Exchange System (CNIES) is being used by JIATF-S and 11 cooperating nations in South and Central America in efforts to suppress illicit maritime drug traffic.
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The committee's approach was to add value to the ongoing efforts and respond to the spirit of the CNO's request while at the same time addressing the four levels of cooperative effort for maritime security and the four tasks (the four bullets) in the terms of reference.
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, and recommends mechanisms for improved governance of maritime security. Appendixes A through G provide supplemental and study-process-related information.
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