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From page 24... ... 27 Mahan Revisited Why Resilient Commercial Seaports Are a National Security Imperative Stephen E Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations More than a century ago, the great naval strategistAlfred Thayer Mahan in his seminal work, TheInfluence of Sea Power on History, warned his readers that "while it is wise to observe things that are alike, it is also wise to look for things that differ; for when the imagination is carried away by the detection of points of resemblance it is apt to be impatient of any divergence in its new-found parallels, and so may overlook or refuse to recognize such." In perhaps a rather verbose, 19th century way, Mahan was making the point that when it comes to issues of national security, it is always essential to question the conventional wisdom about risk and strategy. Read the entire page →
From page 25... ... no relation to their ongoing vulnerability and the consequences should a 9/11-scale attack be directed against them. In the case of Los Angeles, the security for 7,500 acres of facilities that run along 49 miles of waterfront is being provided by a small port police force of 175 officers supplemented by private security guards at the marine facilities. Read the entire page →
From page 26... ... Finally, resilience means having the means to absorb the new lessons that can be drawn from a catastrophe. It is foolish for a society to go right back to business as usual as soon as the dust clears by, say, failing to resolve communications issues that confound coordination and information sharing among emergency responders. Read the entire page →
From page 27... ... up potentially conflicting with the need for a timely incident assessment and the undertaking of emergency actions to stabilize the wrecks. At the same time, there must be adequate security at the incident scene for workers to do their jobs without fear that they might be targeted by a follow-on attack. Read the entire page →

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... 27 Mahan Revisited Why Resilient Commercial Seaports Are a National Security Imperative Stephen E Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations More than a century ago, the great naval strategistAlfred Thayer Mahan in his seminal work, TheInfluence of Sea Power on History, warned his readers that "while it is wise to observe things that are alike, it is also wise to look for things that differ; for when the imagination is carried away by the detection of points of resemblance it is apt to be impatient of any divergence in its new-found parallels, and so may overlook or refuse to recognize such." In perhaps a rather verbose, 19th century way, Mahan was making the point that when it comes to issues of national security, it is always essential to question the conventional wisdom about risk and strategy.

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From page 25...

... no relation to their ongoing vulnerability and the consequences should a 9/11-scale attack be directed against them. In the case of Los Angeles, the security for 7,500 acres of facilities that run along 49 miles of waterfront is being provided by a small port police force of 175 officers supplemented by private security guards at the marine facilities.

Read the entire page →

From page 26...

... Finally, resilience means having the means to absorb the new lessons that can be drawn from a catastrophe. It is foolish for a society to go right back to business as usual as soon as the dust clears by, say, failing to resolve communications issues that confound coordination and information sharing among emergency responders.

Read the entire page →

From page 27...

... up potentially conflicting with the need for a timely incident assessment and the undertaking of emergency actions to stabilize the wrecks. At the same time, there must be adequate security at the incident scene for workers to do their jobs without fear that they might be targeted by a follow-on attack.

Read the entire page →

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