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The continued fall of the number of US navy ships has limited the locations where effective presence can be maintained and slows down redeployment. The authors envisage enhanced naval cooperation as a solution. In an age when budgets have become the new strategy, like-minded navies can align on desired ends with available means. Broader and deeper cooperation can be built on five pillars: shared strategic vision; coordinated maritime doctrine aligning war-fighting, presence, and security missions; increasingly closely integrated capability development and capacity building; cross-fertilization of naval education and training; all leading, ultimately, to more effective global burden-sharing.