Oceans ventured
Subtitle: winning the Cold War at sea
By: John Lehman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780393254259
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Modern Military history; Cold War; National security; United States; World politics; Sea-power; Naval History; History; United States. Navy; Armed Forces
Other titles: Winning the Cold War at sea
Description: "[A] story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (289-313)and index.
Table of contents: title: American Naval strategy and operations in the Cold War; title: Ocean Venture '81: a bold new strategic operation; title: Talking a new national strategy to sea: sending a message; title: Soviet panic; misreading the message: the mobilization of 1983; title: Gaining global velocity, 1983-1985; title: The beginning of the end: Northern Wedding, 1986; title: The Soviets (and others) get the message, 1986-1988: the Cold War hurtles toward its end; title: The Cold War ends, 1989: the East European bloc disintegrates.