Not Your Mother’s Coast Guard: How the Service Can Come into Its Own Against 21st Century Threats
Kevin Duffy | February 2, 2018
Not Your Mother’s Coast Guard:
How the Service Can Come into Its Own Against 21st Century Threats
The Coast Guard is a discrete and flexible national security tool, often filling unique maritime niches in support of Department of Defense or combatant commanders’ needs. Such roles, though, are typically considered to be almost incidental components of the service’s broad and diverse mission portfolio, which is primarily domestic and includes both regulatory and law enforcement responsibilities. With the release of the 2017 National Security Strategy, however, the Coast Guard has been presented with an opportunity to maximize its value to a government that appears to be taking a different view on which activities and capabilities should be emphasized in the national security realm.
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