It recently emerged that 15 retired commanders and military scholars wrote to the government in late January, urging it to reconsider the maritime component of the SDSR.
Whereas in the open coastlands near the North and Baltic seas the maritime component prevails, continental elements gain in importance moving toward the east and southeast.
However, the allocation of top roles started changing in 2012, when an Australian was put in charge of the maritime component, and Canada has also taken on a key role as RIMPAC changes to a more global event.
It is time to consider whether the Alliance needs a special operations component command to stand alongside the land, air and maritime component commands it enjoys in Europe today.
As outgoing SOCOM chief Olson put it earlier this year, SOCOM "is a microcosm of the Department of Defense, with ground, air, and maritime components, a global presence, and authorities and responsibilities that mirror the Military Departments, Military Services, and Defense Agencies". .
SOC chief Olson said in 2011 that SOCOM "is a microcosm of the Department of Defense, with ground, air, and maritime components, a global presence, and authorities and responsibilities that mirror the Military Departments, Military Services, and Defense Agencies".
This paper illustrates the application of the TCD to a case study on the failure analysis of a large maritime vehicle component in three different designs.
The LSC index is based on five maritime transport components (i.e. number of ships handled, their container-carrying capacity, maximum vessel size, number of services, and number of companies that deploy container ships in a country's ports; see http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.SHP.GCNW.XQ for details).
However, trade flows could also influence maritime connectivity and its components.
Table 1 Components relevant in scope of RoRo maritime connectivity and data availability Components Main references Relevance for RoRo (theoretical) Data availability for RoRo (empirical) Vessel capacities Jiang et al. (2015), UNCTAD's LSCI, Wang and Cullinane (2008).
Complemented with the previous phylogeographic information obtained from complete sequences, it seems that the Levant component points to maritime contacts from the Neolithic onwards.
