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Securing the Seas: The Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options
Securing the Seas: The Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options
By Paul H. Nitze, Leonard Sullivan, Jr., and the Atlantic Counc
Westview Press, 1979, 464 pp

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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