2005, ISBN: 9781234355241

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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 44 pages. LC Number: KF27 . P89627 2005d OCLC Number: (OCoLC)68041468 Subject: Ships -- Purchasing -- United States. Excerpt: . . . 9 vides us their intentions, what port they are going to enter, and we have time to do an analysis on both the vessel, the crew, and the cargo to see if it might prove any threat. If it did - and right now we our acting authority is under law enforcement, as opposed to Title X DOD operations - we could plan a response to that. And re-cently we have done responses very far offshore, up to 1, 000 miles if we think we need to do that, and sometimes that is with the co-operation of the flag states who are willing to cooperate with us. If it appears that the threat out there is something that would exceed the Coast Guards capabilities, we would be in active nego-tiation with the Department of Defense on what the right mix and response to that should be. And if it appeared that we had the abil-ity to declare hostile intent on the part of that vessel or that threat that is approaching the United States, DOD would be employed to defeat that threat at the farthest distance offshore. That could be a Coast Guard unit with support from the Navy or it could be a Navy unit with support from the Coast Guard under recent proto-cols that we have negotiated with U. S. Northern Command and the Department of Defense. But there is an active negotiation, and what you want to do is put the right capability on the threat to de-feat it as far offshore as you can, sir. OBLE Mr. C. Well, how does the revised Deepwater system im-prove Admiral A. I can give you a good scenario, sir. First of all, LLEN you have a cutter underway, say, 100 miles offshore doing fisheries patrol, when they are alerted that you have a threat that is, say, 1, 000 miles offshore. First of all, with the increased maritime do-main awareness and command-and-control capabilities that are on the upgraded cutters and the new cutters, we will be able to trans-mit what is called a common operating pictur. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<