A Thoroughly Efficient NavyBrookings Institution, 1987 - 130 pages |
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... campaign against all Soviet submarines , including ballistic missile submarines . " Admiral Watkins hastens to add , however , that the strategy " does not envision automatic attacks on any specific targets , " even though the United ...
... campaign against all Soviet submarines , including ballistic missile submarines . " Admiral Watkins hastens to add , however , that the strategy " does not envision automatic attacks on any specific targets , " even though the United ...
Page 74
... campaign against allied sea - lanes , and the extent to which they would try to concentrate their forces on U.S. military cargoes . Since , inevitably , assumptions must be made about these issues for purposes of force planning ...
... campaign against allied sea - lanes , and the extent to which they would try to concentrate their forces on U.S. military cargoes . Since , inevitably , assumptions must be made about these issues for purposes of force planning ...
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... campaign in the future , as in the past , is expected to be a campaign of attrition lasting for months . During that period the enemy submarines would undergo attack as they proceeded toward the shipping lanes , as they attempted to ...
... campaign in the future , as in the past , is expected to be a campaign of attrition lasting for months . During that period the enemy submarines would undergo attack as they proceeded toward the shipping lanes , as they attempted to ...
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