A Thoroughly Efficient NavyBrookings Institution, 1987 - 130 pages |
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... response , that in most crises since World War II ( minor as well as major ) American presidents had regarded it as the service of choice to deal with the situation . It could also show , perhaps less conclusively , that of all the ...
... response , that in most crises since World War II ( minor as well as major ) American presidents had regarded it as the service of choice to deal with the situation . It could also show , perhaps less conclusively , that of all the ...
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... responses and a full - scale attack by an undamaged U.S. strategic capability . Furthermore , the experience of the ... response regardless of the nature of the attack , but the options , and the forces committed to them , should be so ...
... responses and a full - scale attack by an undamaged U.S. strategic capability . Furthermore , the experience of the ... response regardless of the nature of the attack , but the options , and the forces committed to them , should be so ...
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... response to an emergency , compared with the 5 that the Navy fleet could make available . Despite its somewhat smaller size , the efficient force would have no difficulty in exercising U.S. rights to the freedom of the seas , whether in ...
... response to an emergency , compared with the 5 that the Navy fleet could make available . Despite its somewhat smaller size , the efficient force would have no difficulty in exercising U.S. rights to the freedom of the seas , whether in ...
Contents
Text Tables | 1 |
Defense of the Navy | 5 |
The Maritime Strategy | 12 |
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