And the underlying, unremitting, ruthless strategy is
for expanding and maintaining global military
deployments for both blackmail and attacks.
If the US's Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan
aims at insuring among other tasks US and allied naval
control of the Indian Ocean; if Operation Enduring
Freedom - Philippines brings Western naval power into
Southeast Asia; if Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn
of Africa solidifies control of the Arabian Sea, the
Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, with recent assistance
from NATO and the EU in Operation Atalanta; if NATO's
Operation Active Endeavor controls all navigation into
and throughout the Mediterranean, complemented by the
German and other NATO nations' naval blockade of
Lebanon, soon to be replicated with Gaza; if all these
operations secure domination of critical parts of the
world's oceans and seas, the Proliferation Security
Initiative is increasingly the overarching structure
that integrates them all.
And lying behind and underpinning the PSI is what the
current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the
US armed forces Michael Mullen, while developing this
strategy as Chief of Naval Operations, called the
Thousand-Ship Navy in an October 29, 2006 column in
the Honolulu Advertiser.
The 1,000-Ship Navy, Mullen said, “[Is] a global
maritime partnership that unites maritime forces, port
operators, commercial shippers, and international,
governmental and nongovernmental agencies to address
mutual concerns."
The following year the US Navy publication Navy
Newsstand summarized the matter:
"Vice Adm. John G. Morgan, Jr., deputy chief of Naval
Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy and
Rear Adm. Michael C. Bachman, commander of the Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Command, explained that the
1,000-ship Navy is a network of international partner
navies who will work together to create a force
capable of standing watch over all the seas.
"Vice Adm. John G. Morgan, Jr., deputy chief of Naval
Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy and
Rear Adm. Michael C. Bachman, commander of the Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Command, explained that the
1,000-ship Navy is a network of international partner
navies who will work together to create a force
capable of standing watch over all the seas.
"'A new naval era is coming and we’re doing exciting
things in preparation for it,' Morgan said. 'The Navy
is being challenged....The Navy’s traveling around and
getting the idea of a 1,000-ship Navy to patrol the
seas, out to the world.”
“'This 1,000-ship Navy idea is all about a global
maritime network, a huge network of sharing,' said
Morgan. 'That’s the biggest challenge we’re facing: a
network of many integrated countries’ navies with one
goal in mind of patrolling the world’s seas.'"
for expanding and maintaining global military
deployments for both blackmail and attacks.
If the US's Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan
aims at insuring among other tasks US and allied naval
control of the Indian Ocean; if Operation Enduring
Freedom - Philippines brings Western naval power into
Southeast Asia; if Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn
of Africa solidifies control of the Arabian Sea, the
Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, with recent assistance
from NATO and the EU in Operation Atalanta; if NATO's
Operation Active Endeavor controls all navigation into
and throughout the Mediterranean, complemented by the
German and other NATO nations' naval blockade of
Lebanon, soon to be replicated with Gaza; if all these
operations secure domination of critical parts of the
world's oceans and seas, the Proliferation Security
Initiative is increasingly the overarching structure
that integrates them all.
And lying behind and underpinning the PSI is what the
current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the
US armed forces Michael Mullen, while developing this
strategy as Chief of Naval Operations, called the
Thousand-Ship Navy in an October 29, 2006 column in
the Honolulu Advertiser.
The 1,000-Ship Navy, Mullen said, “[Is] a global
maritime partnership that unites maritime forces, port
operators, commercial shippers, and international,
governmental and nongovernmental agencies to address
mutual concerns."
Newsstand summarized the matter:
"Vice Adm. John G. Morgan, Jr., deputy chief of Naval
Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy and
Rear Adm. Michael C. Bachman, commander of the Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Command, explained that the
1,000-ship Navy is a network of international partner
navies who will work together to create a force
capable of standing watch over all the seas.
"Vice Adm. John G. Morgan, Jr., deputy chief of Naval
Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy and
Rear Adm. Michael C. Bachman, commander of the Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Command, explained that the
1,000-ship Navy is a network of international partner
navies who will work together to create a force
capable of standing watch over all the seas.
"'A new naval era is coming and we’re doing exciting
things in preparation for it,' Morgan said. 'The Navy
is being challenged....The Navy’s traveling around and
getting the idea of a 1,000-ship Navy to patrol the
seas, out to the world.”
“'This 1,000-ship Navy idea is all about a global
maritime network, a huge network of sharing,' said
Morgan. 'That’s the biggest challenge we’re facing: a
network of many integrated countries’ navies with one
goal in mind of patrolling the world’s seas.'"
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