The sea services have issued a coordinated strategy for U.S. maritime dominance on the high seas. Titled "Advantage at Sea," the strategy outlines much needed highly desirable goals to ensure freedom of navigation and international security over three-quarters of the Earth's surface with a rightfully dominating focus on China. It serves as a high-level naval strategy under which is tucked the respective service strategies. Pursuing it comes at a cost, and one blunt question is whether the United States and its allies are prepared to pay that cost, politically and financially.
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