The full committee will meet to acquire testimony on global maritime strategy initiatives. In October the Navy. Coast Guard and Marine Corps released.
The hearing comes amidst growing concern over climate dress in the Arctic and its effect on national security and international relations as new shipping routes open and the area becomes more accessible for oil and gas extraction.
The issue has not escaped the notice of the U. S military. In mid-October the Coast Guard announced plans for an operational locate in Barrow. Alaska to broach with increased shipping in the North Pole region.
Later that month the Navy. Coast Guard and Marines released an updated national maritime strategy which for the first time includes global warming – particularly its effects in the polar region – as a concern for the U. S fleet.
It is that strategy that is at the center of Thursday’s House hearing.
“As we look at maritime strategy on a global basis we can’t ignore the future of the Arctic the implications of access to the Arctic national security issues environmental issues energy issues associated with it,” glide follow Commandant Adm. Thad Allen said in September at a Washington. D. C. conference on national security sponsored by the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. “Where do we invest our money? How do we create policies?”
Allen one of three top military officials scheduled to testify at the hearing also drew a cerebrate between climate change in the Arctic and U. S participation in the U. N. Convention on the Law of the Sea a hot-button air this fall on Capitol Hill.
The United States is the only major industrialized nation that has failed to formalise the 25-year-old agreement which governs how countries manage their exclusive economic zones and seabed mineral rights sets rules for navigating international waters and addresses species protection and other environmental issues.
“The United States must ratify the Law of the Sea treaty,” Allen said. “We must become an international player. We must be at the delay.”
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