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Proceedings Magazine - April 1986 Vol. 112/4/998

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• Arleigh Burke Essay Contest Winner: START & the Navy
  By James L. George

  The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) will soon begin their fourth year. Although grounds for skepticism about reaching any agreement in the...

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• CWC Revisited
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• Arleigh Burke Essay Contest Winner: START & the Navy
  By James L. George

  The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) will soon begin their fourth year. Although grounds for skepticism about reaching any agreement in the near future still exist, there are three points to keep in mind.

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• CWC Revisited
  By Captain P. J. Doerr, U. S. Navy

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• The Quiet Revolution
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• Telling It Like It Isn’t
  By Colonel William V. Kennedy, U. S. Army Reserve (Retired)

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• Televising War
  By Major Michael C. Mitchell, U. S. Marine Corps

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• Pictorial: 1985 Naval and Maritime Prize Photography
  By J. E. Chris Holmes PH2USN
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• SDI in Context
  By The Right Honorable The Lord Chalfont

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• Who’s in Charge?
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• Nobody asked me, but …
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• Nobody asked me either, but …
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• The U.S. Navy: The Submarine Advanced Combat System
  By Norman Polmar

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• The Soviet View
  By Captain William H. J. Manthorpe, Jr., U. S. Navy (Retired), Former Assistant Naval Attaché to Moscow

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• Special: A Cause Célèbre: Wamponoag
  By Vice Admiral Edwin B. Hooper, U. S. Navy (Retired)

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• Addendum to Contemporary U. S. Naval Strategy: A Bibliography
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