Multicrises: Sea Power and Global Politics in the Missile Age
Language: English
Published by The MIT Press, 1971
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- Title
- Multicrises: Sea Power and Global Politics in the Missile Age
- Author
- Howe, Jonathan Trumbull
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Publication year
- 1971
- Condition
- UsedGood
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262080435
- ISBN 13
- 9780262080439
Since World War II, both Moscow and Washington have actively sought to extend their influence throughout the world, with the consequent gains and losses measured less in real estate than in political and psychological leverage. Mr. Howe sees the United States, however, as an anticolonial force, intervening in local conflicts only when apparent Soviet instigation threatens global reverberations. Russian ambitions and exploitation of national liberation movements and unrest in the Third World increase the number of potential conflicts involving U.S. security.
To the frequently leveled charge that the United States is acting as the "world gendarme," Mr. Howe counters with the assertion that America has policed its own zones of influence in a limited peace-keeping role. In response to fears of overcommitment, he allows that the multicrisis phenomenon may expose the United States to greatest jeopardy. Policy choices, in handling both Middle East and Quemoy challenges, were constrained somewhat by the demands of preexisting crises in Vietnam and Lebanon, respectively, but neither involvement appreciably undermined American capability to guard its vital interests. Capability factors bearing upon the decision-making process included estimation of Soviet intentions, military capability and vulnerability, congressional and public opinion, dependence on British support, and economic effects of intervention.
Though the United States did not renege on its commitments, two recent divergent trendsSoviet naval expansion in the Mediterranean and British contraction of forces East of Suezwill undoubtedly increase American military and psychological vulnerability and intensify the difficulties of coping with similar effectiveness in the inevitable clashes of the future.
Mr. Howe focuses also on the roles of U.S., Soviet, and British fleets in each situation. The Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and Seventh Fleet in the Far East were employed as visible symbols of power to prevent Soviet intimidation of unaligned countries. Both crises placed on trial the effectiveness of conventional naval forces as instruments of foreign policy. In an age of nuclear stalemate, Mr. Howe note the renewed significance of surface fleets.
An informative oral history, compiled from discussions with upper echelon foreign policy decision makers and appended to this study, supplements extensive and intensive research.
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