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Martin Murphy, Senior Fellow

Dr. Martin Murphy is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. His research interests cover all aspects of naval warfare, maritime irregular warfare, maritime security, piracy and transnational criminal threats.

He is the author of Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money, a major study of criminal and political disorder at sea published by Columbia University Press in Spring 2009, and Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism, an Adelphi Paper published by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in 2007. He has chapters forthcoming on naval support for counter-insurgency operations and on the linkages between piracy and state weakness in Somalia. He has written chapters on maritime domain awareness and on piracy and the Law of the Sea. His academic publications include two papers, ‘The Blue, Green and Brown: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency on the Water’ in Contemporary Security Policy and ‘Suppression of Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: A Suitable Role for the Navy?’ in Naval War College Review, which was recognized with a literary award from the Surface Navy Association.

He has written on naval special forces, littoral warfare, the maritime terrorist threat, public-private security cooperation and the marine insurance industry for US Naval Institute Proceedings, the Jebsen Center for Counter-terrorism Studies, Armed Forces Journal, Jane’s Intelligence Review and Maritime Studies.

He has advised the UK Ministry of Defence on maritime irregular warfare and related criminal activity at sea.

Dr. Murphy holds a BA with Honors from the University of Wales, and Masters (with distinction) and doctoral degrees in strategic studies from the University of Reading. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King’s College, London.

Bibliography

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Littoral Combat Ship: An Examination of Its Possible Concepts of Operations
Report
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By Martin Murphy

03/03/2010
critical technologies, navy, select weapons systems, service-focused analysis, systems/force structure

The report considers the most effective uses of the Littoral Combat Ships and offers possible inputs on the ships’ projected missions, ways in which they could be employed, their distinguishing characteristics and additional missions could they accomplish with certain modifications.

Somali Piracy: Not Just a Naval Problem
Backgrounder
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By Martin Murphy

04/17/2009
alliances, dod strategy and policy, military operations, navy, radical islamism

CSBA's look at the issue of piracy, its implications for the US policy and recommendations on effective means to combat piracy

Release of New Book on Piracy and Maritime Terrorism
Press Release
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By Martin Murphy

03/13/2009
radical islamism, navy

press release announcing release of new book by Martin Murphy