Potential Grand Strategies

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Why A Conversation?
A Backwards Look at Some Forward-thinking
Maritime Strategists
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Enduring Problems of Maritime Strategy
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Building the Moat Hamilton vs. Jefferson
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Strategic Food for Thought

• Should maritime forces be forward deployed as
  Hamilton wanted

or focused on homeland defense as Jefferson
wanted?

• What role should alliances play in Americas
  future maritime strategy?

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Securing the Global Commons RADM Mahan
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More Strategic Food for Thought

• What kind of maritime strategy is best suited to
  prevent war among major powers and limit regional
  conflicts?

• A Mahanian strategy primarily designed to
  control the commons?
• Or what Mahans critics wanted, an expeditionary
  strategy designed to project power from the sea?

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Paving the Highway
FDR, Congressman Vinson the Balanced Fleet
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Even More Strategic Food for Thought

• Which strategic concept is most important for
  understanding the oceans today the moat, the
  commons, or the highway?

• How do we tailor our maritime strategy to
  accommodate the broad spectrum of maritime
  missions from humanitarian assistance to
  defeating a major power?

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Way Ahead
Where do we go from here?