...support the leadership of our maritime forces, and of those of our global partners, in thinking through the implications of new set of global security challenges and opportunities (see the "President's Forum" in the Autumn 2006 issue of the Review). The current effort finds its roots in the discussions of the 17th International Seapower Symposium (ISS), held in the fall of 2005.

At that conference, fifty-five chiefs of navies and coast guards, along with twenty-seven war college presidents from around the world, gathered in Newport to share perspectives on a broad range of issues important to our navies, coast guards, and countries through the mechanism of regionally oriented seminars (eight of them). The two days produced from each region comprehensive lists of key concerns, the similarity of which was remarkable. As the symposium drew to a close, a consensus was articulated that maritime security was fundamental to address these concerns, that the scope of security challenges reached beyond the waters of individual nations, and most importantly, that responsibility for the maritime domain--the great "commons" of the world--was shared. Moreover, the need was expressed for regional and global mechanisms that would allow maritime nations to bring more routinely and effectively their particular capabilities together to ensure a free and secure maritime domain.

The host of that ISS, Admiral Mike Mullen, summarized the key proposition of the symposium: "Because today's challenges are global in nature, we must...

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