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What are the four main oceanareas that are of prime

strategic importance to the

United States. The loss of

free transit in any of these

strategic ocean areas would

affect our national security.


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Atlantic Ocean, Pacific

Ocean, Arctic Ocean andAfro-Asian Ocean.


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Explain that this is the North

Atlantic Treaty

Organization's area ofresponsibility, and the United

States plays a major role inits defense.


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Atlantic Ocean


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This ocean extends from the

Bering Strait, which separates

Alaska and the Soviet Union, to

the Strait of Malacca separatingMalaysia from Indonesian

Sumatra and includes the Chinaseas and Sea of Japan.


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Pacific Ocean


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This strategic ocean area liesnorth of our own continent of

North America and separates

Canada and Alaska from

Siberia and is a frozen naval

operating area.


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Arctic Ocean


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Major sea-lanes cut through thisstrategic ocean area that includes

the broad reaches of the South

Atlantic and Indian Oceans

carrying products from the Middle

East around the Cape of GoodHope or through the Suez Canal.


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Afro-Asian Ocean


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What is NATO?


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North Atlantic Treaty

Organization


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A strong political tactic usingthe Navy and Marine Corps

team that may reduce or even

eliminate the need for direct

military involvement.


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Naval Presence Mission


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Where a Navalcommunications station is

located in the central IndianOcean.


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Diego Garcia


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What does insurgency

mean?


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A revolt against agovernment that is less

than an organizedrevolution, but not

really a war.


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A strong civilian arm ofseapower, essential to US

national security as espoused

by Captain Alfred Thayer

Mahan.


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Merchant Marine


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This body of water is anarea vital to the defense of

the United States thatprovides a water avenue to

our southern andMidwestern states.


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Gulf of Mexico


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A strategic trade routebetween the Pacific Ocean

and the Caribbean area.


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Panama Canal


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The Strait of Gibraltar

is the front door to this

sea.


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Mediterranean Sea


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This strait is the front door tothe Mediterranean, is a vital

commercial chokepoint, orbottleneck to southern Europe

and Northern Africa and the

Middle East.


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Strait of Gibraltar


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Ships of Russia and the

Ukraine come from

seaports on the Black Sea

through the "side door" to

the Mediterranean throughTurkey.


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Bosporus and Dardanelles


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This sea is located betweenthe Mediterranean Sea and

Indian Ocean.


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Red Sea


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This port city sits at the Strait

of Ma1acca's southernentrance.


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Singapore


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The NATO countries Denmark,Norway, and West Germany

control these straits that guardthe entrance to the Baltic Sea.


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Danish Straits


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The Seventh Fleet uses thischokepoint in the world's

sea-lanes that is an ocean

highway between the Indian

Ocean, the South China Sea,

and the Pacific.


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Strait of Ma1acca


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A ship must transit this strait

when leaving the Red Sea

on its way to the IndianOcean.


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Strait of Bab E1 Mandeb


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Ships must transit this

waterway between the Red

Sea and the eastern end ofthe Mediterranean.


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Suez Canal


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This US Naval base in Cuba

protects our trade route

through the Panama Canal and

is crucial, for the stability and

security of the Caribbean area.


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Guantanamo Bay


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A hot spot in the NearEastern area in recent years

has been the site of a longwar of attrition between

Iran and Iraq fought withfloating mines.


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Persian Gulf


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The nickname for the Strait of

Gibraltar a chokepoint that is

claimed by Great Britain and

Spain and is a major reason for

the poor relations between

those two countries.


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The Rock


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These waters are of vitalinterest to the United States

and our allies because thetankers that carry crude oil to

ports throughout the freeworld pass through them.


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Strait of Hormuz


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Since the Navy can travelfreely on the high seas, capable

of meeting challenges in

widely separated areas of the

world is called.


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Geographic Mobility


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By using international waters(where there are no problems

of national sovereignty) to

achieve National Objectives

we demonstrate.


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Political Mobility


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Naval forces can movequickly wherever we wish,

and disperse whenever andhowever necessary and can

blockade the enemy

iswhat type of mobility.


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Tactical Mobility


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Since we can replenish fuel,stores, and ammunition at sea

we have what type of

mobility?


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Sustained Mobility


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Having sea-based forces nearcertain land areas on the

scene, combat-ready and able

to anticipate problems, may

act as what?


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Deterrent force


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Seapower


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What is the mainadvantage many foreign

merchant fleets have overU.S. merchant fleet

companies?


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They are state

supported.

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