Regional Maritime Reconnaissance & Surveillance Developments: Summer 2016

This year’s Maritime Reconnaissance & Surveillance event comes at a particularly important time for much of the world’s maritime powers considering the span of evolving threats. Today, almost no region worldwide is unaffected by a serious security threat at sea. Fishery protection remains a serious concern for most coastlines. Piracy is resurgent in African waters. Territorial disputes in South-East Asia continue to bubble to the surface, while the Arctic Circle is slowly becoming a more prominent geopolitical concern. Latin American and Caribbean nations see no immediate end to narcotics smuggling. And of course, Europe is witness to a serious cross-sea migrant crisis. Here, we explore each of these regions in more depth…

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