it is now about five years since the current maritime strategy was first formulated within the us navy
from the american point of view the strategy of deterrence and the related priciple of limiting to tolerable proportions whatever conflicts become inevitable tend to spring from the premise that the favourable results of a total war can never be sufficient to justify its cost
the soviet emphasis on strategic defense is firmly grounded in soviet military doctrine and strategy which call for the following actions in the event of nuclear war