The Reformation of the Naval Strategy

บทคัดย่อ

     The research title “The Reformation of the Naval Strategy” has 2

objectives, 1) to study and analyse Thailand Naval and Maritime Strategies

and study their imbalances and relevancies. 2) To study how to reform

the current Naval Strategy to meet the new strategic environment and

maritime interests and to determine the suitable Naval and Maritime

Forces. This research is a Qualitative Research writing in a Descriptive

manner.

       Research findings: The Thailand Naval Strategy is imbalanced

between Force Planning and the Use of Force. The Naval Strategy planners

used to formulate the strategy only in the aspect of the force planning

without the use of force aspect. This causes a lacking of the future use

of force and Future Naval Operational Concepts (FNOC) in the formulation.

The Threat-Based Strategic Planning must be transformed to the

Capability-Based Strategic Planning to meet current strategic security

environment especially in the existing of ASEAN Community rather than

imposing threat and distrust among all neighbour countries.The

introduction of International Relations, Preventive Diplomacy, Naval

Diplomacy and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) should be included

in the formulation process of making Naval Strategy and Naval

Policy which related to the Government Policy.

      Selective Engagements will be the concept of implementation

clearly applied to all neighbours and countries from peacetime to

the time of conflict or war according to the Spectrum of Conflicts.

The Ring-Fenced Strategic concept of area divisions applying the

Employment Contexts (EC) to each area with different political and

military relations can be the new strategic formulation approaches

to make force planning more effective. The findings propose new

models of rebalancing and reformation of Naval Strategy according

to the Pic. 1, Pic. 2 and Pic. 3.

      Recommendations: Royal Thai Navy should cooperate with

National Security Council in order to generate the new reform of

the Naval Strategy through this thesis findings emphasize the

relevancy of both Naval Strategy and National Maritime Security

Plan 2015-2021 regarding the Future Use of Naval and Maritime

Forces and the possibility of the combination into only one strategy

of Maritime Strategy including the making of Future Naval

Operational Concept (FNOC) implementing the Naval/Maritime

Strategy will make the strategy balance and support future force

planning effectively.