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STUDIES ON INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY: SELECTED WORKS

Volume 2

WHY NATIONS PUT TO SEA

WHY NATIONS PUT TO SEA

Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century

KEVIN L. FALK

First published in 2000 by Garland Publishing Inc.

This edition first published in 2019
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2000 Kevin L. Falk

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ISBN: 978-1-138-61548-9 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-429-44077-9 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-32287-5 (Volume 2) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-45100-3 (Volume 2) (ebk)

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WHY NATIONS PUT TO SEA

TECHNOLOGY AND THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF SEA POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

KEVIN L. FALK

Published in 2000 by
Garland Publishing Inc.
A member of the Taylor & Francis Group
29 West 35th Street
New York, NY 10001

Copyright 2000 by Kevin L. Falk

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Falk, Kevin L.

Why nations put to sea: technology and the changing character of sea power in the twenty-first century/Kevin L. Falk.

p. cm. (Garland studies in industrial productivity)
Includes bibliographical references (p. )
ISBN 0-8153-3527-X (alk. paper)

1. Sea-powerForecasting. 2. Twenty-first centuryForecasts.
I. Title. II. Series: Garland studies on industrial productivity.
V25.F35 1999
359dc21

99-31319
CIP

Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper
Manufactured in the United States of America

For Marcia, my wife and best friend.

Contents

Doctor Kevin Falk describes here the relation between technology and the exercise of sea power. Besides illuminating that relationship, he reminds us of a neglected fact: the United States is a maritime nation whose interests and welfare depend on the successful exercise of sea power. That is, access to the sea, to the air above the sea, and to the depths beneath the sea serve the prosperity and safety of the general citizenry of the Republic, and that access is dependent on the exercise of sea power.

For the United States, sea power is an expression of the capability to control the maritime approaches to North America, to render safe and useful the arteries of commerce between North America and abroad, and to keep open those lines of communication that render possible material support for friendly nations whose safety is a vital interest of the United States.

Without control of the air, sea, and undersea approaches to North America; without the freedom to use the arteries of commerce; and without the capability to provide material support to friendly nations abroad, the United States cannot in wartime engage abroad those enemies who otherwise would bring the war directly to North America. It is the capability to apply sea power in the transoceanic world that makes a nation more than merely one with maritime interests.

Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Italy all are maritime nations to a considerable degree. Yet none of those today has the capability to control its sea approaches, by itself, save in peacetime when no other nation contests that control. Their more distant maritime interests are only safeguarded, if at all, at the pleasure and for the convenience of other powers.

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