Navy’s strategic and tactical readiness to fight a full-scale naval war have taken on increasing importance in the development of sound American maritime strategy.įollowing the approaches established in the U.S. As the World War II reality of sustained combat at sea fades into distant memory, alternative means of measuring the U.S. In the absence of actual hostilities between the United States and the U.S.S.R., an eventuality the United States has actively sought to deter, there has been no opportunity for the Navy to test its officers and its technology against the Soviet threat under wartime conditions. During those same four decades, the once minor Soviet Navy has emerged in both quality and quantity as a formidable seagoing force. naval officers trained to operate and command that technology in combat. During those years, more than two generations of American naval technology have come and gone, as have the two generations of U.S. Navy was last locked in combat at sea with a determined and capable oceangoing enemy.
Over four decades have passed since the U.S. The following article originally appeared in The Naval War College Review and is republished with permission.
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