A portuguese speech about Africa Partnership Station. APS is a United States Navy military cooperation mission, focused primarily on shaping operations consistent with Building Partner Capacity, Theatre Security Cooperation plans, and Maritime Security leading to better governance. This mission is being conducted by the USN in the Gulf of Guinea since 2007/2008. We argue that this mission, part of Global Maritime Partnerships, known before as Global Fleet Station, heir the 1000 Ships Navy concept and is plenty of the novelty inside the 2007’s US Maritime Strategy, named A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (afterward in this document referred as Cooperative Strategy). This strategy is deeply different from the last US Maritime Strategies and stresses the importance of conflict prevention based on cooperation and sea patrolling. Consequently, the success of this novel strategy, here briefly reviewed, is tied up to success of missions like APS. Finally we will point out the probable implications of this concept and of APS mission for the Portuguese Navy.
António Anjinho Mourinha, Academia da Marinha
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