Naval diplomacy beneath the waves
Subtitle: a study of the coercive use of submarines
By:  Brent Alan Ditzler
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from the National Technical Information Service
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Description: This thesis addresses one dimension of 'naval diplomacy', namely submarine naval diplomacy. It examines the suitability and/or desirability of employing submarine forces for naval-diplomatic purposes. It reviews the historical record of 'underwater gunboat diplomacy', the particular aims that its practitioners have sought to achieve, and it examines the opportunities and constraints for the assignment of submarines for future naval diplomacy purposes. Keywords: Naval diplomacy; Gunboat diplomacy; Submarines; SSN; SSBN; Spanish civil war; Cuban missile crisis; Arab-Israeli wars; Political signalling; Visibility; Falklands crisis. (eg)
Notes: Thesis advisor, Jan S. Breemer.

"December 1989."

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 1989.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Approved for public release; distrubution is unlimited."

US Navy (USN) author.

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