The Case for a Second-Class Navy: Military Reform and Reagan's Maritime Strategy

Abstract

A consensus has been reached by many military reformers that the Reagan administration's Maritime Strategy of threatening to strike the Soviet Union in response to an attack is most strategically sound, especially when those counterattacks would be conducted by Navy reformers, calls for the Navy to confine itself to "sea control" missions. They would either eliminate the carrier power projection mission or greatly proscribe it.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA437789

Entities

People

  • John J. Becker Jr.

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Battles
  • Birds
  • Cruise Missiles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Sea Control
  • Security
  • Ships
  • United States Government
  • Universities
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.