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MARITIME DOCTRINE OF SRI LANKA

Horizontal escalation

Deployment of SLN fleet for hunting floating warehouses
hundreds or sometimes thousands of nautical miles from
land - expanding the geographic scope of a conflict.

Vertical escalation
LTTE attacking SLN craft with 23mm guns fitted on their
platforms much before SLN started using same and SLN
changing its strategy from a brown water confrontations to
pursuing and engaging LTTE ships (floating warehouses) in
international waters towards the latter stages of the conflict –
increasing the intensity of the conflict by employing types of
weapons not previously used in the conflict or attacking new
categories of targets.

Embroilment

It is a situation where conditions are altered to use of force to attain
political objectives by a large scale, of greater intensity or longer duration
than it had predicted or was prepared at the initial stages. 32

Persuasion and Dissuasion

Persuasion is convincing another state, by diplomatic means without
the threat or use of force to carry out certain actions that are in its
own interests, by emphasising the benefits of the actions to that state.
Dissuasion is convincing another state by diplomatic means without
the threat or use of force to abstain from carrying out certain actions
that are harmful to own interests. In this context, naval forces with its
inherent attributes and capabilities are ideal to carryout persuasion and
dissuasion. 33

46 To Nurture a Stable Environment at Sea