07
November 2013
Past Event
Sea Power: Is the Sun Setting in the West or Rising in the East?

Sea Power: Is the Sun Setting in the West or Rising in the East?

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
November 07, 2013
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07
November 2013
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
RADM Christopher Parry, Royal Navy (ret.)

Author of Down South: A Falklands War Diary (2012)

ADM John Harvey, U.S. Navy (ret.)

Fomer commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command

CDR Bryan McGrath, U.S. Navy (ret.)

Hudson Adjunct Fellow and former Commander, USS Bulkeley

Seth Cropsey

President, Yorktown Institute

The Royal Navy today is a shrinking shadow of its former self.  Nineteen surface ships currently exist in the entire Royal Navy where more than three times that number made up the surface fleet during the Falklands War of 1982.  The U.S. fleet has also experienced large decreases, although not on the same scale.  Where the U.S. Navy had almost 600 ships in the mid-1980s, it is down to 284 today with the likelihood of additional large reductions in the future even if sequestration is lifted. 

Admiral Christopher Parry, Royal Navy (ret.), was the keynote speaker at a November 11, 2013 Hudson conference on the implications of ongoing American and British naval retrenchment for both transatlantic powers--and for NATA and the west generally. Parry devoted particular attention to the simultaneous rise of China as an Asian seapower, and to the meaning of this development where Western naval strategy and the current international security order are concerned. Following his remarks, Admiral Parry joined resident Hudson scholars and other distinguished expert guests for an extended panel discussion.

This November 11 conference was the inaugural event of Hudson Institute's new Center for American Seapower.  Consistent with Hudson's decades-long commitment to independent analysis of emerging and future security issues, the Center will examine the size, shape, and character of American sea power--along with associated, broader questions of U.S. and Western maritime strategy in an era of shrinking NATA defense budgets; growing challenges from non-Western seapower aspirants; and looming threats of non-traditional, asymmetric naval warfare.

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