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MARITIME DOCTRINE OF SRI LANKA
The Road Map Towards - SLN 2025

In the road map towards SLN Maritime Strategy 2025, the following
distinctive characteristics will define what the SLN will be:

• Professionalism – built on a foundation of professional men
with the highest standards and values who are trained and
educated to maintain the fighting edge; able to operate in and
from the sea with a strong team ethos, cohesion and identity.
• Operational Versatility – a Navy capable of contributing to all
operations at sea, on land, in the air and across the seams of
those environments.
• Interoperability – SLN needs to be an interoperable Navy,
in order to operate with sister services, allies, regional/
international partners and other government agencies.
• Deployable – SLN has to focus on the regional deployment as
well as take part in multinational deployment opportunities.
• Information Focused – SLN need to embrace on the emerging
information and surveillance technologies and improve
expertise at using information as a tool and a weapon.
• Agility – SLN need to continue to learn, exploit current
operational knowledge to develop future requirements
and thereby to react swiftly to the changing demands of an
uncertain world.
• The Right Expansion – SLN needs to expand in a timely and
a sufficient manner to fulfil its commitments and thereby be
able to conduct the broad range of maritime defence and
security tasking mandated by government policy.
• Asymmetric Warfare (AW) – SLN remains as one of the leading
Navies in the world which has pioneered tactics and strategies
of AW. SLN need to look through a different path in addressing
the present and future expected maritime challenges through
innovativeness in AW.
• Decisive Leaders – Develop and sustain a leadership climate
that encourages, initiative, decisiveness and trust while
improving SLN’s future leaders’ abilities to lead and manage
effectively.

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