US Naval Strategy and National Security by Sebastian Bruns

Author:Sebastian Bruns [Bruns, Sebastian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, Naval, Strategy, Political Science, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9781317229681
Google: KuI2DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-22T05:01:03+00:00

Strategic concept

NDP 1 was the fourth (and final) capstone document signed by CNO Kelso. The Navy’s somewhat uneasy relationship with doctrine (in contrast to other branches of the military), the problematic relationship between the Navy and the Marine Corps, and the eventually incomplete roster of publications notwithstanding, NDP 1 laid out naval objectives to advance the broad lines of maneuver over attrition warfare. It used examples from naval history to convey its key ideas and “its purpose was to explain the inherent nature of the enduring principles of naval force and to translate the vision and strategy of ‘… From the Sea’ into doctrinal reality.”83 In citing Admiral Turner’s four missions of 1974 (sea control, projection of power ashore, naval presence, and strategic deterrence), NDP 1 subsumed established roles of naval forces and also spoke to general principles of war.84 Those were not new by any means; they were simply restated as the underlying objectives those conducting naval warfare needed to keep in mind. More importantly, NDP 1 listed a number of principles and mission-sets that previously had not been featured as prominently, including naval operations other than war.85 As such, NDP 1 offered some potential, but it was too broad in scope and widely seen as a product that led nowhere. To its critics, it was a diluted, goalless paper emanating from a command in Norfolk, not Washington. It did not seem to be informed by any measurable input from major makers and shapers of American seapower, and NDP 1 was eventually eclipsed by rival documents, “… From the Sea” (1992) and “Forward … From the Sea” (1994).

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