COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCES PLANNING OVER THE MARITIME SECURITY OPERATIONS
COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCES PLANNING OVER THE MARITIME SECURITY OPERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: This article is trying to emphasize the need of Maritime Security Operations for a comprehensive resource planning that has to be done in accordance with the provisions of the national strategies and the allied ones. In this respect, the guidance is given by the National Defense Strategy, White Book of Defense, National Military Strategy, NATO Strategic Concept, EU Global Strategy, EU Maritime Strategy, international and national laws with the goal to identify the main courses of action and the possibilities to maximize the effect of defense planning in supporting the Maritime Security Operations (MSO).Current evolving challenges and threats to maritime security environment – terrorism, piracy, armed robbery, human trafficking, narcotics and migration – are forcing the maritime nations to seek for a comprehensive operational preparation of the forces that are to be declared and transferred to conduct MSO. Even though this kind of operations are by nature positioning outside the symmetrical war dimension, but it might evolve into one, the preparation of the MSO deployable forces have to cover firstly the war fighting capabilities in all domains and then the needs of such of the particular operation. For a better understanding this study is briefly presenting a point of view regarding the Maritime Security and the resources process that might be considered to generate, transfer and sustain the capabilities during the conduct of MSO.

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