Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Integrating Maritime Statecraft and Strategy

In the past several months, the U.S. Navy has continued to protect global shipping in combat in the Red Sea, the Port of Baltimore struggled through the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, and the Chinese Coast Guard and maritime militia conducted attacks on Philippine ships. With these events and more, concerns about shipping rates and routes and responses to global maritime insecurity have led commentators and strategists to turn their attention toward the U.S. role in the maritime world. These reflections have not all been positive. We are assured that “America is a maritime mess” and that the “list of The post Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Integrating Maritime Statecraft and Strategy appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Integrating Maritime Statecraft and Strategy

In the past several months, the U.S. Navy has continued to protect global shipping in combat in the Red Sea, the Port of Baltimore struggled through the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, and the Chinese Coast Guard and maritime militia conducted attacks on Philippine ships. With these events and more, concerns about shipping rates and routes and responses to global maritime insecurity have led commentators and strategists to turn their attention toward the U.S. role in the maritime world. These reflections have not all been positive. We are assured that “America is a maritime mess” and that the “list of

The post Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Integrating Maritime Statecraft and Strategy appeared first on War on the Rocks.