Title: A new case for naval arms control
Description: This paper opens with an examination of existing legal restraints on naval forces and arms      control agreements and concludes that the U.S. is already heavily engaged in naval arms      control. Given the new international security environment and the new U.S.      regionally-oriented national security and military strategies, the author then recommends a      series of additional naval arms control measures that should be taken: exchanges of data,      transparency, INCSEA, cooperative measures, an agreement on the laws of submarine      warfare, abolishing NCND, no first tactical nuclear use at sea, NWFZs, advanced      notification of operational-level exercises, environmental protection measures, controls      over maritime technologies, armed escorts of nuclear shipments, new Roes, PALs, the      resolution of outstanding political issues at sea, deep cuts in nuclear forces, CFE      follow-on, limits on specific types of naval forces, geographic limits, expanded standing      naval forces, and a re negotiation of the ABM Treaty. The paper then addresses      verification and compliance issues. Author concludes that since the U.S. Navy has      already managed to avoid major arms control while balanced on the precarious 'slippery      slope', there is no reason to continue its stonewalling policies.
Subjects: ARMS CONTROL