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Really enjoyed meeting @FirstSeaLord at #AFF22 (@FutureAtlantic) & to hear his assessments. Earlier in the day @Jesse_Norman laid out an expansive vision of a trading network of democratic states across the Pacific, Indian & Atlantic #transoceanic regions. 1/
These supply chains running across the maritime domain need to be secured. The #Nordstream incidents show the challenges of securing all of this infrastructure. Allied navies including @RoyalNavy & @USNavy will have to do more and be able to dynamically shift across regions. 2/
Platforms intended to endure for decades must be able to field iterative, agile capabilities to respond to these new challenges. Something we also teach at @NavalWarCollege to rising national security leaders is importance of a mindset that emphasizes resilience & adaptation. 3/
Proposals for “economic NATO” & all sorts of supply chain and energy transitions have to face domestic #doorstep realities that @JLPartnersPolls did for #AFF22 (@FutureAtlantic) that such proposals are harder to move when majorities in both 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸 feel financial insecurities 1/
both at the personal level (52% in 🇬🇧 & 66% in 🇺🇸) but also at the country-national level. This suggests major new initiatives for regionalization will face political headwinds. 2/
Tying this to the ongoing discussion between @Judah_Grunstein @PatPorter76 & @EmmaMAshford about a U.S. global role and its link to the dollar, #AFF22 (@FutureAtlantic) convos must connect these expansive plans to domestic fault lines & skepticism about the #doorstep benefits. 3/
So at #AFF22 invocation of need for trusted supply chains, #allyshoring, etc. but also that this can be cost effective. But we need to tackle reality that Russia and China offered commodities and components at lower cost/greater quantities. To generate #allyshoring … 1/
we must squarely face the dollars and cents equation and WHO will pay the differential between shifting away from cheaper “autocratic” to more expensive democratic providers. 2/
20 years ago, we could argue increased integration with China & Russia not only made economic sense but seemed to aid them in their own internal liberalization & to take their places in the post-Cold War order. Today we must face reality that our economic & national security… 3/
UK ambassador Dame Karen Pierce, at #AFF22 (@FutureAtlantic): U.S.-UK tech partnership in 21st century could be just as significant as military cooperation was in 20th century. 1/
And PM Liz Truss’s message to #AFF sounds themes @ashjain50 has stated: economic partnership of like-minded nations to advance an agenda of liberty. In other words the #DTEP (democratic trade and economic partnership). 2/
Sets the agenda for what they are terming #reglobalization … because of impacts if #fracturedglobalization - rethinking institutional arrangements and supply chains, and necessary items for securing this. 3/
