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200 00$aReturning from ebb tide $erenewing the United States commercial maritime enterprise /$fedited by Steve Wills, PhD ; with a foreword by Admiral James Foggo, USN (Ret.)
210   $cMarine Corps University Press (MCUP)$d2025
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327   $aPart 1: The current state of America's commercial shipping industry -- Why a standalone U.S. commercial fleet? / John McCown -- The late Cold War and post-Cold War world of shipping and the impact on the U.S. commercial fleet / John McCown -- A Strategy for the commercial maritime industry / Brent Sadler -- Savannah's legacy: advancing U.S. commercial shipping with small nuclear reactors / Thomas Davies and Sanjana Shashikumar -- Part 2: The elements of strategic sealift -- The role of TRANSCOM / Vice Admiral Dee Mewbourne, USN (Ret.) PhD -- Sealift : requirements, capabilities, and capacity  Bradley Martin, PhD -- The Maritime Security Program (MSP) and the Tanker Security Program (TSP) : force multipliers for U.S. sealift / William McDonald -- The National Defense Reserve Fleet, the Ready Reserve Force, Strategic Sealift, and Prepositioning Programs / Sabreena Croteau -- Part 3: The Merchant Marine -- An introduction to the Merchant Marine / John Konrad --The Maritime Academies and maritime training / Christopher Chiego, PhD; Amy Skoll, PhD; and Ryan Wade -- Mariner retention: decades of neglect / Geoffrey Brown, with LCdr Eric Bardot.
330   $a"Returning from Ebb Tide highlights the decline in our nation's commercial maritime capability for a variety of reasons-the peace dividend in the post-Cold War era; elimination of subsidies for the commercial maritime sector during the Ronald W. Reagan administration; and globalization whereby we outsourced our maritime lift requirements to foreign carriers, some of whom may not be friendly to us in times of war. It is one thing to lament the inability of our current maritime industrial base to produce aircraft carriers, warships, icebreakers, and submarines on time and on budget, yet policy makers and commentators often ignore the atrophy of our commercial maritime fleet. This is the fleet that supported the Allies to defeat authoritarian regimes in the First and Second World Wars and ferried hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of pounds of equipment in support of Desert Shield and Desert Storm . This fleet is a shadow of its former self, and this book represents a clarion call to action. Failure to revitalize America's once-great merchant fleet will spell sure defeat in the next time the United States finds itself fighting a major conflict. We cannot afford to idly observe the status quo in the commercial maritime sector"--$cProvided by publisher.
606   $aMilitary sealift$zUnited States$xEvaluation
606   $aMerchant marine$zUnited States$xEvaluation
606   $aShipping$zUnited States$xEvaluation
606   $aLogistics, Naval
606   $aOperational readiness (Military science)
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615  0$aMerchant marine$xEvaluation.
615  0$aShipping$xEvaluation.
615  0$aLogistics, Naval.
615  0$aOperational readiness (Military science)
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702   $aWills$b Steven T$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
702   $aFoggo$b James G.$cIII$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/wfw
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