Soviet Naval Strategy: Fifty Years of Theory & Practice

by Robert Waring Herrick

Book by Herrick, Robert W. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870216724
• ISBN13: 9780870216725
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.

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Soviet Naval Strategy

Commander Robert W. Herrick, U.S. Navy (Retired), examines the ofensive-defensive cycles through which naval strategy has evolved over the last half century with in the Soviet Union. This study is primarily an internal historical analysis, in which the author progresses from a discussion of the beginning of Soviet sea power to an evaluation of the Soviet Navy's present strength - a large, strong subamrine force, including a ballisic and homing missile capability, a modest ASW force, and a surface force with surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles. Despite its forays into distant seas, Commander Herrick contends that the Soviet Navy continues to be strategically defensive; this comprehensive appraisal of the evolution of Soviet Naval strategy should go far in contributing to an understanding of current and prospective developments within the Soviet Navy, and, hopefully, to further discussions of that Navy's strategic potential. --- from book's dustjacket