Sea power rivalry : the influence of Admiral Gorshkov on American Naval Thought, 1963-1985
The US-Soviet sea power rivalry was an extraordinary example of how Americans thought about navies, argued about them, and responded to them. These debates played out in policy channels and public forums for decades. This dissertation examines the competing understandings of the Soviet Navy in the US during the later Cold War. The Soviet naval threat posed an intellectual challenge as well as a national security threat. The Soviet Navyâs transformation under its long-time commander-in-chief, Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, into a blue water navy caused great alarm in the US political and military establishments. Americans based their threat perceptions on what the Soviets wrote, what they built, and how they deployed and exercised their naval forces. This work traces the contributions of those who shaped American naval thought through analysing Gorshkovâs writings on sea power and by monitoring Soviet naval developments. This dissertation examines the influence of Admiral Gorshkov on the leaders of American naval thought as they responded to his ambitions to counter American maritime supremacy beginning in the mid-1960s. It argues that the two schools â those who viewed the Soviet Navy as basically defensive
Huckabey, Jessica Montgomery
Sea power rivalry : the influence of Admiral Gorshkov on American Naval Thought, 1963-1985. The US-Soviet sea power rivalry was an extraordinary example of how Americans thought about navies, argued about them, and responded to them. These debates played out in policy channels and public forums for decades. This dissertation examines the competing understandings of the Soviet Navy in the US during the later Cold War. The Soviet naval threat posed an intellectual challenge as well as a national security threat. The Soviet Navyâs transformation under its long-time commander-in-chief, Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, into a blue water navy caused great alarm in the US political and military establishments. Americans based their threat perceptions on what the Soviets wrote, what they built, and how they deployed and exercised their naval forces. This work traces the contributions of those who shaped American naval thought through analysing Gorshkovâs writings on sea power and by monitoring Soviet naval developments. This dissertation examines the influence of Admiral Gorshkov on the leaders of American naval thought as they responded to his ambitions to counter American maritime supremacy beginning in the mid-1960s. It argues that the two schools â those who viewed the Soviet Navy as basically defensive
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