Since the concept of a ‘1000 Ship Navy’ was first proposed at the International Seapower Symposium in Newport, RI in November 2005, leaders of the world’s navies have met in various forums to think about how to promote a Global Partnership that provides for our common safety and security on the high seas. Rear Admiral Michael J. Browne reviews the concept of Global Maritime Partnerships and suggests that certain practices—in particular, how we build our ships and ship systems—will enable our collective ability to achieve the vision of global maritime security.
Enabling Concepts for Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century
As Alfred Thayer Mahan recognized in his writings in The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, ‘The continuance of [a nation’s] prosperity at home depends primarily upon maintaining her power abroad.’ Perhaps that statement rings even truer today, as we become ever more globally connected in our trade and dependence on one another across countries, borders and cultures.
Additionally, Thomas Friedman, in his book The World is Flat, proposed the idea of the ‘Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention’, which stipulates that: ‘No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like that of Dell Computer, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain.’
What Friedman proposes is that as long as corporations have major supply chain operations in countries other than that corporation’s home country, those countries will never engage in armed conflicts. This economic interdependence is particularly strong where a large corporation (such as Dell) has supply chain operations in multiple global locations and the developing nations in some of those operations take place are reluctant to give up their new-found wealth.
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