{"id":373,"date":"2015-09-28T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?page_id=373"},"modified":"2015-09-28T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:29:28","slug":"about-dartmouth-centre-for-seapower-and-strategy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/about-dartmouth-centre-for-seapower-and-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dartmouth Centre for Seapower and Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/business-partners\/partnerships\/dartmouth-centre-seapower-strategy\">Plymouth University\u2019s Dartmouth Centre for Seapower and Strategy (DCSS)<\/a><\/strong> has been set up to meet the clear and growing need to raise knowledge, awareness and understanding of strategic and defence issues as they relate to maritime affairs and the use of seapower in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary strategic challenges \u2013 including the resilience of global networks, food and water security and the rise in global maritime trade, have highlighted the dependence of island nations, such as the UK and Ireland, on seapower to maintain open lines of communication, connectivity, and so economic prosperity and political stability.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In late 2013 the UK Chief of Defence Staff argued that UK military risks having \u201cexquisite weapons systems\u201d but a \u201chollowed out force\u201d not fit for purpose.<\/li>\n<li>In January 2014 a former US Secretary of Defence suggested that the UK was in danger of losing full spectrum interoperability with the US.<\/li>\n<li>By March 2014 the UK Chief of General Staff noted tensions in Ukraine were unforeseen and \u2018confound our previous assumptions about stability across Europe.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since 2008, Plymouth University has established a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/business-partners\/partnerships\/dartmouth-centre-seapower-strategy\/dcss-the-study-of-strategy\">history of excellence and success at delivering educational opportunities to naval officer and NCO professional training<\/a>\u00a0at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (BRNC). This experience is now complimented by Plymouth University\u2019s newly created\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www5.plymouth.ac.uk\/schools\/school-of-government\">School of Government<\/a>, who have expertise in strategic and defence studies as well as experience in professional military education.<\/p>\n<p>The DCSS will undertake valuable teaching and research. \u00a0It will also help inform and shape security policy decision-making by generating education and training opportunities, research, dialogue and debate across the maritime domain.<\/p>\n<p>This independent, influential and inclusive Centre has three unique selling points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plymouth is Britain\u2019s \u2018Ocean City\u2019 with a proud maritime and military history and Dartmouth hosts the BRNC, the world\u2019s most prestigious naval college. \u00a0Plymouth and Dartmouth have a unique heritage and profile in marine and maritime matters.<\/li>\n<li>The Centre\u2019s core staff are well positioned to highlight the implications of evolving links between key contemporary drivers including science and technology, business and trade, societal values and norms and changes to the strategic environment itself.<\/li>\n<li>The dialogue, research and educational opportunities offered by the Centre will be of high quality, accessible and represent value for money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plymouth University\u2019s Dartmouth Centre for Seapower and Strategy (DCSS) has been set up to meet the clear and growing need to raise knowledge, awareness and understanding of strategic and defence issues as they relate to maritime affairs and the use of seapower in the 21st century. Contemporary strategic challenges \u2013 including the resilience of global&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/about-dartmouth-centre-for-seapower-and-strategy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Dartmouth Centre for Seapower and Strategy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}