Strategic Culture and Its Relationship to Naval Strategy

摘要: Abstract : At the Naval War College's Current Strategy Forum in June 2006, Chief of Operations, Admiral Michael Mullen, called for creation a new maritime strategy. The key Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard formulating strategy will be describing how, within context national military strategy, forces can make strategic difference. There are three parts to this requirement. First, it should cast as Secondly, closely aligned with for, Samuel Huntington sagely observed over fifty years ago, resources which service is able obtain democratic society function public support that service. has responsibility develop necessary support, only do if possesses concept clearly formulates its relationship security. And, thirdly, must harmony Navy culture. When Navy's Cold was crafted early 1980s, fulfilled each these requirements. It because had context: addressed specific adversary geographic places along phased transition time. not doctrine, tends essentially free. complementary national, NATO, flexible response, offered way employ naval (including allied forces) order take war Soviets places, against targets, at times our own choosing, theirs. question crafters asked themselves was: How dimensions warfare--time, space, intensity--to influence course outcome war?