The Maritime Strategy: One Ally\u27s View

Much ink has been spilled of late on the question of whether the Maritime Strategy is the U.S. Navy\u27s design for going it alone or whether it is a sincere invitation to the European Allies for a rebirth of a true coalitional naval strategy. One of the strategy\u27s early critics, Robert W. Komer, warned, in 1984, that the Europeans might interpret it as a form of U.S. global unilateralism or a form of neoisolationism. If so, he said, the effect of the Maritime Strategy on the credibility of America\u27s alliances would be devastating.