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Jan 11, 2024 · At the same time, naval power is a supple tool of statecraft because it can resist swift escalation. In a crisis on land, armies can be reinforced quickly with fresh troops. At sea, sending forces ...
Why Do We Need to Study Naval Power as a Tool of Statecraft? Contested freedom of navigation, welcome back. Absent from mainstream debates about the relevance of military power in international politics since the end of the Cold War, until recently naval power had come to embody the linear
Jan 16, 2022 · Against this background, this article examines the enduring strategic relevance of naval power over the last century, vis-à-vis its challenges and prospects among other instruments of force and ...
At the same time, naval power is a supple tool of statecraft because it can resist swift escalation. In a crisis on land, armies can be reinforced quickly with fresh troops. At sea, sending forces ...
- Jakub J. Grygiel
- THE LIMITS OF SEA POWER
- FROM SEA TO LAND
- Continental Military Presence
- Pressure on the Rival’s Land Frontier
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Jakub J. Grygiel most significant clashes between great powers are occurring on land. Rus-sia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, the rivalry between Iran and the United States and its regional allies, the lengthy conflict in Afghanistan, and the expansion of China’s influence along its One Belt, One Road (OBOR) vectors—these are just a few illustrations of ...
The first weakness—the challenge of converting sea power into political effect— is perhaps the most pervasive, and it becomes particularly evident when a sea power competes with a continental rival. Translating superiority on the seas into political influence on land is neither automatic nor dependent exclusively on the sea power’s skills. In fact,...
The first option is perhaps the most visible, because it involves fleets delivering forces onto shore, followed by sieges of cities and other land battles. Usually, however, such an attack on a coastal fortress or port has been extremely limited in geographic scope, and has not been followed by a massive and lengthy inva-sion of the rival’s territo...
Creating pressure along the rival’s land borders is another option at the disposal of the sea power. The goal is to inflict costs on the continental enemy, most im-portantly to redirect its attention from the sea to its immediate neighbors along a land frontier.24 Land borders have a powerful diversionary effect because they shape the security of t...
Jan 16, 2024 · Japan’s example leads to the third factor underwriting the concept of naval statecraft. Notwithstanding a considerable fleet, Japan elects to use naval statecraft as a regional power. Tokyo’s fleet trains and operates the world over, but its main operational space focuses on the wider Indo-Pacific.
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The editors have assembled a fleet of leading international experts to survey all aspects of naval power as a critical tool of statecraft in keeping the world's most consequential region secure. This work stands apart in making sense of the complexity of the challenge, explaining the intersections of geography, history, transnational risks, hard power, and technology.
