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The Creation of the Maritime Strategy : = The US Navy, National Strategy, and the End of the Cold War.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Creation of the Maritime Strategy :/
Reminder of title:	The US Navy, National Strategy, and the End of the Cold War.
Author:	DiEugenio, John Kiprian.
Description:	1 online resource (449 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-07A.
Subject:	Military history. -
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ISBN:	9798381385137

The Creation of the Maritime Strategy : = The US Navy, National Strategy, and the End of the Cold War.
DiEugenio, John Kiprian.

The Creation of the Maritime Strategy :The US Navy, National Strategy, and the End of the Cold War. - 1 online resource (449 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

In 1968, the onset of US-Soviet nuclear parity and the decline in American maritime superiority compelled national and naval leaders to redesign strategy. As the Nixon administration advanced detente, or reduced tensions with the Soviet Union, two competing ideas about maritime power emerged within the Navy. This dissertation explores the limits of translating ideas into policy through the relationship between maritime and national strategy.In 1970, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt advocated for a maritime strategy of Sea Control. Zumwalt's strategy was a reaction to the Soviet fleet's expansion and shrinking US budgets that eroded the service's post-1945 posture of global maritime supremacy. The limited objective of Sea Control required the Navy to transform its force structure. Rather than a fleet of expensive, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Zumwalt advocated for more numerous, small, conventionally-powered carriers to defend sea lanes, especially those in the Atlantic. Ironically, although Sea Control fit within the Nixon-Kissinger strategy, Zumwalt's poor relationship with the White House doomed the concept. Moreover, naval leaders viewed Sea Control as an anathema to US strategy and culture. Between 1975 and 1987, Admirals James Holloway, Thomas Hayward, and Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman Jr. argued that the Navy should instead project power aggressively near Soviet home waters and onto the Soviet flanks. The three leaders shepherded ideas derived from early 20th-century strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan back into the modern sea service. The best way to defend the sea lanes, they reasoned, was through forward, offensive operations with large, nuclear-powered carriers. This neo-Mahanian vision required a change in national strategy as much as maritime strategy. Fortunately for them, President Ronald Reagan agreed. Events, such as the 1979 shattering of detente and the Falklands War, legislation, such as the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act, presidential elections, and personalities transformed US strategy. In the 1980s, defense leaders reached a consensus that the neo-Mahanian way of war was integral to Cold War strategy. An energized Congress funded the Navy to regain maritime superiority. While the neo-Mahanian vision did not transmit to the post-Cold War Navy, its advocates built the foundation of maritime power for the next forty years.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381385137Subjects--Topical Terms:

810444
Military history.
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Cold WarIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The Creation of the Maritime Strategy : = The US Navy, National Strategy, and the End of the Cold War.
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