Problems of Sea Control in Theater Nuclear War.

Abstract

The Soviet Union has promulgated and refined a doctrine of nuclear employment encompassing both the ground and maritime theaters. Although U.S. defense planners recognize the possibility that a ground conflict may well escalate beyond the nuclear threshold, U.S. planning for sea warfare has been based on the implicit premise that a future naval conflict will be conventional in scope. Soviet developments in the area of naval nuclear war coupled with years of neglect on the part of the U.S. Navy has left U.S. naval power in general and the U.S. surface fleet in particular, highly vulnerable to nuclear strike. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA090489

Entities

People

  • Gordon H. Mccormick

Organizations

  • System Planning Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boats
  • Carrier Based Aircraft
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • Geography
  • Military Organizations
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Prompt Global Strike
  • Sea Control
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies