New ‘tri-maritime strategy’ released, but leaders struggle to explain certain key points December 17, 2020 Fire Controlman 2nd Class Samuel Thomas "racks" an M2HB .50-caliber machine gun on the foc’s’le during a small craft attack team drill aboard the guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain Oct. 7 in the South China Sea. (MC2 Markus Castaneda/Navy) A new tri-service maritime strategy for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard released Thursday is the latest Pentagon product to sound the alarm over the increasing military might of a resurgent Russia and an ascendant China. Replete with Pentagonese like “Integrated All-Domain Naval Power,” the report starkly warns of the threat posed by Beijing and to a lesser extent Moscow, and how those rivals could upend the international order as soon as the next decade.