The Maritime Strategy

By James A. Barber, Jr.
January 1986
From the Executive Director Naval strategy has recently received more attention than in any peacetime era since Alfred Thayer Mahan dominated the scene. This unusual prominence stems from the Navy’s ...
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The Maritime Strategy

By Admiral James D. Watkins, U. S. Navy
January 1986
The goal of the overall Maritime Strategy is to use maritime power, in combination with the efforts of our sister services and forces of our allies, to bring about war ...

The Amphibious Warfare Strategy

By General P. X. Kelley, Commandant of the Marine Corps, and Major Hugh K. O’Donnell, Jr., U. S. Marine Corps
January 1986
"I also predict that large-scale amphibious operations will never occur again." —General Omar N. Bradley, 19 October 1949. When these words were uttered by the Chairman of the ...

The 600-Ship Navy

By John F. Lehman, Jr.
January 1986
Geography, alliances, and the Soviet threat combine to dictate the actual numbers of ships—the "size of the Navy"—required to fulfill our commitments in each of our maritime theaters. And this ...

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