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Securing the Seas: The Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options

Paul H. Nitze, Leonard Sullivan, Jr., and the Atlantic Council Working Group on Securing the Seas
Reviewed by Andrew J. Pierre
Winter 1979/80
Securing the Seas: The Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options
Paul H. Nitze, Leonard Sullivan, Jr., and the Atlantic Council Working Group on Securing the Seas
Westview Press
1979
464 pp.
$24.00
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A thorough, impressive analysis of Soviet naval capabilities and strategies as well as their Western counterparts. The authors conclude that the U.S.S.R. is now capable of seriously interfering with essential shipping and of challenging other Western uses of the seas. The study constructively details a number of measures recommended to rectify this situation.

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