Week 8 -> Maritime Security Flashcards
What are the 4 intersections of marine security
1) Protect territorial integrity
2) Protect trade
3) Win wars
4) Keep products and people out
On Territorial Integrity
So understand boundries of laws and regulations
- HArd to define with continental shelf and EZZ
- Also important interms of whos recourse is what
- “international” waters is also hard to define (like with NWPassage)
On Protecting trade
Many ports and sea town rely on trade, so must protect and maintain access
- Coastal waters easily defined and defended with navel fleets
- International maritime organization supposed to help maintain trade in international waters (inter-dependent)
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On keeping stuff out
So, who and what allowed in?
- Fights against piracy and human trafficking
- this also involved keeping out unwanted dumping and trash
On winning wars
To transport supplies (offensive) To prevent the enemy from doing that (defensive)
-also to blow up enamy
Marine security challenges
- Pircay (drugs and people)
- smuggling
- refugee migration
- illegal dumping at sea (Associated with smuggling)
- territorial agresson
On Piracy, what do they go after
- kinda romanticized with a long history
- comand vessel (crew often killed)
- Steal valuable (where rape is often the side hustle)
- Seize ship (hold cargo and crew hostage)
- Crew sold into slaves & human trafficking
On smuggling
Ie bringing in goods w/o tariffs esp if tax is high
- sold on the black market
- effects border control and gov enforcement
- often drugs are mixed with fishing cargo
On dumping
Many still dump, esp at night (cus even with charges, it is sometimes cheaper to do so)
- all ports have good waste management but at a fee
- so 20% Of plastic is just dumped directly
on CC, human trafficking and mass migration
lol all are interconnected
- CC is driving out people from their homes
- there are slave islands full of taken crew and refugees
On territorial agression
Remember navel powers really important and have been important for YEARS
- Napoleonic period } blocked ports and supported land troops and blasted enemy ships
- after ww1 submarines come in and change everything
All these threats come together in what was in the straight of Hormuz cera
almost 40% of the world’s oil and gas comes through this straight
How to help with domain awareness?
Use Arial surveillance to better map out coastlines (esp in CND) Though statilights are the new normal
The largest navy
is in the US, mainly used to project power not to fight
