Rear Admiral Philip Wilcocks CB DSC Chief Of Staff Capability CommanderinChief, Fleet Royal Navy

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Rear Admiral Philip Wilcocks CB DSC Chief Of
Staff CapabilityCommander-in-Chief, FleetRoyal
Navy
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• How inappropriate to call this plant Earth when
  it is quite clearly ocean
• Arthur C. Clarke

Sea 70.8 Land 29.2 Coastline Global
535,000 m EU 40,700 m UK 7,750 m

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Strategic Shock

• Previous
• Black Death impact on 14th C Europe
• Rapid demise of the Warsaw Pact 1989
• The attack on the USA in Sep 2001
• Future
• Climate change
• Globalization
• Global Inequality

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Global trade routes Choke points
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RN vs Illegal use of Sea

• CD operations
• Caribbean
• Mediterranean
• Atlantic
• Arabian Sea

BBC 29 Nov 06
Total RN drug seizure 2002 2006 Value 3 Bn
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Illegal use of Sea

• People Trafficking /Economic Migrants
• Arabian sea
• Med
• Atlantic

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RN vs Illegal use of Sea

• Royal Navy search for 'hijacked ship'
• The ship is said to have been seized off Bossasso
• The Royal Navy has launched a search for a
  British ship reportedly hijacked off the
  north-east coast of Somalia.

• Counter Piracy
• Horn of Africa
• Gulf of Aden

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• Energy policy . could be as crucial to our
  countrys future as defence
• Tony Blair 23 May 2007
• The enemies are climate change and the
  precariousness of future supplies

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Current Challenges

• Prevent further environmental degradation of the
  sea
• Encourage sustainable economic activity in a
  secure environment
• Ensure political commitment to maritime issues
• Restore a sense of maritime identity

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Illegal use of Sea

• How is it policed?
• Impact of TW/EEZ
• High Seas
• Constraints of International Law
• Rules of Engagement
• The Worlds Navies are the only High Seas
  Policemen today not a core task though

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Natural disaster response

• Personnel trained
• Ships carry relief stores
• Naval contribution
• Equipment
• Logistic Lift
• Willing and trained personnel
• Command
• Control

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Situational Awareness

• Underpins all efforts
• Allows the authorities to see what is happening
• Fused all source information
• Real time and analysis
• Must be interagency

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The Issues

• Political acceptance Commitment
• Legal coherence Rules of Engagement
• Information flow
• Interagency - ability intent to act
• Agreed outcomes
• Adequate Resources

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Situational Awareness

• Fundamental to operations
• All source product is key
• Question unusual activity
• Interaction with other maritime users is
  essential to gain ground truth

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Illegal commodity routes
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Scientific Support

• Post 2004 Tsunami Analysis
• HMS SCOTT available in area
• Support to civilian scientists
• Fast forwarding of data and products to agencies

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Tsunami in Europe?

• La Palma
• Cumbre Vieja volcano
• EU North Atlantic seaboard at risk
• Contingency response?

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