A Thoroughly Efficient NavyBrookings Institution, 1987 - 130 pages |
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... Air Force 56.0 55.1 57.9 66.2 73.7 83.7 100.2 105.9 97.5 Defense agencies / OSDb 6.8 6.9 7.7 9.5 11.0 10.6 11.9 14.0 15.6 Defense - widec 18.5 19.3 19.7 21.3 21.8 19.4 0.6c 1.0 1.9 Total 196.5 196.0 200.4 225.7 252.4 272.8 285.6 306.0 ...
... Air Force 56.0 55.1 57.9 66.2 73.7 83.7 100.2 105.9 97.5 Defense agencies / OSDb 6.8 6.9 7.7 9.5 11.0 10.6 11.9 14.0 15.6 Defense - widec 18.5 19.3 19.7 21.3 21.8 19.4 0.6c 1.0 1.9 Total 196.5 196.0 200.4 225.7 252.4 272.8 285.6 306.0 ...
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... Air Force denigrates the efficiency of carrier - based aircraft . Technology has sharpened these controversies . The advent of long- range bombers and aerial refueling means that , even without overseas bases , the Air Force can attack ...
... Air Force denigrates the efficiency of carrier - based aircraft . Technology has sharpened these controversies . The advent of long- range bombers and aerial refueling means that , even without overseas bases , the Air Force can attack ...
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... air battle in the near term . These systems , for better or worse , are not organized into a separate nuclear command , nor can they be considered a specialized and dedicated force on the model of the Strategic Air Command . With the ...
... air battle in the near term . These systems , for better or worse , are not organized into a separate nuclear command , nor can they be considered a specialized and dedicated force on the model of the Strategic Air Command . With the ...
Contents
Defense of the Navy | 5 |
The Maritime Strategy | 12 |
The Navy and the Strategic Nuclear Forces 222 | 22 |
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67 submarines Admiral Watkins Air Force aircraft carriers alert allies amphibious lift amphibious ships antisubmarine warfare Atlantic attack submarines author's estimates ballistic missile submarines bases battleships billion bombers campaign carrier battle groups command committed contingencies conventional forces convoys cost cruise missiles Defense Annual Report defense budget delivered delivery systems Department of Defense deploy deployable deployment destroyers efficient force Efficient Navy enemy escorts Europe fighter Fiscal Year 1987 fleet force planners force planning guided-missile helicopters ICBMs Kola Peninsula Korea land-based forces launch launchers Marine amphibious brigade Marine Corps military Minuteman Minuteman III missions NATO naval forces Navy's nuclear weapons nuclear-powered attack submarines offensive open-ocean search operations overseas Pacific peacetime percent Persian Gulf Poseidon power projection raid sea-lanes second-strike Secretary of Defense SLBMs Soviet navy Soviet Union SSBNs strategic nuclear forces surface combatants surviving Table TLAM-N tonnage Total Trident U.S. forces U.S. Navy Underway replenishment ships United warheads