These Special Report publications offer an abbreviated but accurate look at specific aspects of foreign policy. Very readable and appropriate for both the professional and the student. Two others in the series are: Naval forces and Western security (035543-9, ed. by West et al.) and The US-Korean security relationship (036727-5, ed. by Hinton et al.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
These Special Report publications offer an abbreviated but accurate look at specific aspects of foreign policy. Very readable and appropriate for both the professional and the student. Two others in the series are: Naval forces and Western security (035543-9, ed. by West et al.) and The US-Korean security relationship (036727-5, ed. by Hinton et al.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Der er tale om en kort og klar, vel illustreret redegørelse om NATOs̀ fremskudte maritime strategi under afslutningen af den kolde krig. Her omtales de norske fjorde, især Vestfjordskoncepten, BALTAP og anvendelsen af AFSOUTHś hangarskibe i det østlige Middelhavs knudepunkter.
"On the eve of the 2016 Warsaw Summit, NATO faces a new and challenging security environment dominated by a revanchist Russia increasingly willing to challenge the West and turbulence and violence across the Mediterranean's southern rim. In this new security environment, the maritime domains around Europe are potential friction zones and where these challenges increasingly play out. The Russian navy is growing its capabilities, is increasingly active, and challenges NATO at sea. In April, Russian attack jets buzzed the USS Donald Cook at close range in the Baltic Sea, but that is only one example of recent risky interactions. The Alliance, however, has not yet done enough to prepare for these new challenges in the maritime domain. The current Alliance Maritime Strategy, approved in 2011, does not reflect this challenging security environment and is instead focused on lower-end missions and challenges, such as counter-piracy"--Publisher's description.
"In February 2016 NATO decided on the deployment of its Standing NATO Maritime Group Two in the Aegean Sea for surveilling illegal crossings and contributing to the fight against migrant traffickers, thus demonstrating the Alliance's adaptation to the evolving international security context. NATO maritime forces have been supporting Turkish and Greek authorities, as well as Frontex, the European Union's border management agency (recently upgraded to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency), by providing real-time information. After three years of uncontrollable migrant flows to European coasts and seven months of activity in the Aegean Sea, NATO has decided to join the EU's efforts in the wider Mediterranean Sea, as both organizations face the same security challenges rising from the Southern border, but work with different means as well as partners ... Operation Sea Guardian represents the operationalization, for the very first time, of the full range of the fourth task assigned by the March 2011 Alliance Maritime Strategy (AMS) to NATO's maritime forces: maritime security operations ... Operation Sea Guardian, with numerous functions and responsibilities, is expected to contribute to securing the maritime environment, provide crisis response and enhance partnerships, dialogue and cooperation. This paper explains NATO's broad new maritime operation, outlining its genesis and its cooperation with the EU mission in Mediterranean waters. By locating the operation in the context of the AMS, the paper assesses expectations, prospects for success and pending issues"--Pages 1-2.
