Seablindness

The challenges to American security in the Western Pacific, the seas that surround Europe, and the Persian Gulf are growing. At the same time, U.S. military commanders seek more naval forces to protect America's interest in the safe transit of American goods, deterrence in a proliferating world, and the defense of our key allies. At the same time U.S. defense budgets are shrinking. American seapower has not been as small as it is today since before World War I. Unless reversed, U.S. seapower will continue its decline into the indefinite future as politicians ignore the widening gulf between the cost of modernizing and expanding American seapower, and the resources devoted to this most strategic arm of the nation's defense. Seablindness explains the dilemma. It looks at the consequences of neglect including the effect of increased deployments on families, global scenarios set in the immediate future, the views of America's most knowledgeable military officers, the anxious reactions of U.S. allies, and hard facts to show how a lack of political will is dismantling the nation's global reach and with it, our position as the world's great power.

This edited volume focuses on the South Atlantic regional and national issues with maritime implications: naval policy, security, transnational organized crime, and Europe's legacy and current influence. The work analyzes the positions in favor and against NATO’s extended role in the South Atlantic, the historical and current issues related to the Falklands War, the African national deficits, and initiatives to attend the regional maritime problems. Including contributions from Angolan, Brazilian, Senegalese, and US collaborators, the volume offers eclectic conceptual frameworks, rich historical backgrounds, updated data, original analysis models, and policy recommendations.

The problems originating from the resultant ?bad order at sea? can be directly felt on land, when smuggling, terrorism and related criminal activities operate more or less unhindered. The book provides an important mapping of the challenges preventing good order at sea off the African coast and East Africa in particular. ÿ- Rear Admiral N. Wang, Commandant Royal Danish Defence College

Exploring everything from contemporary challenges to ocean security this book offers detailed insights into the increasing activities of state and non-state actors at sea. Chapters revisit the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC), highlighting how not all maritime security threats can be addressed by this, and further looking at the ways in which the LOSC may even hinder maritime security.

In This Volume: Take the war to the enemy - Bharat VermaINDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW COMMENT: Islam and its many trends - Anand K Verma Is this how we treat our military? - RSN SinghDEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: India's Mission to Moon - G Madhavan Nair Indian Air Force of the Future - Air Marshal BK Pandey Way to a credible deterrent - Arun S Vishwakarma Shourya/Sagarika Missile - Arun S Vishwakarma Indian Defence Procurement Regime: Dissuasive Features - Maj Gen Mrinal SumanEmerging Asian Security Environment - Kanwal Sibal Intelligence Reform - Vikram Sood The Chinese Conundrum: Friends and Foes - Air Marshal Narayan Menon The killers' mace of the dark visitors - Claude Arpi Technologies and National Security - Ajey Lele Dealing with Pakistan - Lt Gen HC Dutta Air Power and Irregular Warfare: In the Indian Context - Air Cmde Arjun SubramaniamDEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: Maritime Security - Commodore G Sharma Alternative Power Source for LCA BEL MBDA CONTROP Terrorist Attacks From Sea: Role of Offshore Patrol Vessels - Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath Defence procurements sans competition - Maj Gen Mrinal SumanCoastal and maritime security: Two Sides of the Same Coin - Vice Adm PS Das India's sea-blindness - Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana India and China in Space - Jagannath P Panda and Ajey Lele From Kashmir to Mumbai: Terror Comes Full Circle - RohIt SinghON THE SPOT REPORT: Gaps in Maritime Security - VK ShashikumarUlfa's niche war - Colonel Rajinder Singh The Poonch Fiasco: A Time to Ponder - Rohit SinghEXECUTIVE SUMMARY BY B RAMAN: Pakistan banks on perceived Indian amenability to US pressure Why Miliband tries to rationalize LeT's terrorist attack in Mumbai?DEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: Eurofighter EADS DandSVIEWPOINT: Solution to the Pakistani terrorist quagmire - Vijaykumar S Kasi

The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through—and framed by—such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading—and of writing and performing—in specific ways.

Describes how the United States Navy has shrunk while the maritime presence of other nations, particularly China, has expanded, and discusses the implications for American naval superiority and strategy.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts to establish, maintain, disrupt or transform the cargo-mobility systems which have grown so dramatically in scale and significance in recent decades.