Adm. Mike Mullen, the U.S. Navy’s new chief of naval operations (CNO), called for expanded international naval cooperation during a speech last week at the Naval War College.
“I’m after that proverbial 1,000-ship Navy,” the CNO said Aug. 28 in Newport, R.I. “A fleet-in-being, if you will, comprised of all freedom-loving nations, standing watch over the seas, standing watch over each other.”
Mullen’s concept is to build on existing international security agreements to extend the global reach of sea power. That power, which he said has not yet been realized, includes the ability to “share and unite” nations.
“Our vision,” he said, “is to extend the peace through an interconnected community of maritime nations working together.”
While emphasizing that war-fighting capabilities remained “first and foremost,” Mullen said that “is not, and it cannot be, all we are about.”
Hmmm…. i wonder if that kind of co-operation is possible
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September 3, 2005 at 12:27 pm