A New Trend in Soviet Naval Development

For the past decade, Western naval leaders have spoken of a Soviet naval buildup and continue to use the same language to describe the very different situation today, a situation marked by a sharp increase in the allocation of resources to naval shipbuilding, a marked rise in the navy\u27s political clout, and a new approach to the role of seapower in Soviet policy

Changing Naval Operations and Military Intervention

Maritime strategy has always been concerned with the use of the sea for a purpose. In the modern world political and economic factors, the emerging international legal consensus, and the advances of technology affect the historical use of navies as instruments of national policy

In My View

In their article “Arctic Security Considerations and the U.S. Navy’s Roadmap for the Arctic” (Spring 2010, pp. 35–48), Rear Admiral David W. Titley and Courtney C. St. John make the claim that “the prevailing and well established scientific view attributes this [Earth] temperature change to anthropogenic emissions of ‘greenhouse’ gases” (page 35), based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report AR4, 2007