Sea Power and Maritime Affairs

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Sea Power and Maritime Affairs

• Lesson 1 Introduction

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Instructor BIO

• Grew up in North Texas
• Southlake Carroll HS
• Graduated Duke University
• Mech Eng.
• NROTC Commission
• GO BLUE DEVILS
• Yes, I was a Cameron Crazy!!!
• Attended SWOS-Newport RI

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BIO (cont)

• USS Lake Erie(CG-70)
• Pearl Harbor, HI
• Fire Control Division Officer
• TBMD-Exo-atmospheric Intercepts
• Nuclear Power School
• Charleston, SC
• Nuclear Prototype
• Saratoga Springs, NY

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BIO (cont)

• USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
• Norfolk, VA -gt San Diego, CA
• Machinery Division Officer
• Completed Engineers Exam July 05
• Houston NROTC Consortium

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Administration of the course

• Testing procedures
• Counseling procedures
• Grading and evaluation procedures

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Current Events

• Duke Unanimous 1 in all polls (178 consecutive
  weeks in top 25)
• Probe to Pluto set for launch
• Nuclear powered?

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Sea Power

• 1. sea power -- (naval strength)
• 2. sea power -- (a nation that possesses
  formidable naval strength)

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Sea Power

• Sea  power  is  the  sum  of  a  nations
  capabilities to implement its interests in the
  ocean,   by   using   the   ocean   areas   for
  political, economic, and military activities in
  peace or war in order to attain national
  objectiveswith  principal  components  of sea
   power  being  naval  power,  ocean science,
  ocean  industry,  and  ocean  commerce.
• The  first  use  of  the  term  sea  power  was
   by Captain  Alfred  Thayer  Mahan,  USN,  in
   his principal work,  The Influence of Sea Power
  Upon History,  1660 1783,   published  in  1890.

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Sea Power

• Mahan explained six conditions required for a
  nation to have sea power

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Sea Power

• (1) an advantageous geographical position
• (2) serviceable coastlines, abundant
  natural resources, and a favorable
  climate
• (3) extent of territory
• (4) a population large enough to defend its
  territory
• (5) a society with an aptitude for the sea and
  commercial enterprise
• (6) a government with the influence to
  dominate the sea.

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For next class

• Sea Power in the ancient Mediterranean World,
  from the Phoenicians to the Battle of Lepanto
• Read Sea Power CH 1 (only ten pages)