A conversation with Robert Komer on U.S. maritime strategy

A conversation with Robert Komer on U.S. maritime strategy

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A conversation with Robert Komer on U.S. maritime strategy

dc.contributor	WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)	en_US
dc.contributor	Blackwell Corporation (Washington D.C.)	en_US
dc.contributor	Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service	en_US
dc.contributor	South Carolina Educational Television Network	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Russia	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Former Soviet Union	en_US
dc.creator	Robert W. Komer (Interviewee)	en_US
dc.creator	Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic) (Moderator)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-01-20T22:50:32Z
dc.date.available	2012-01-20T22:50:32Z
dc.date.created	1986-11-29	en_US
dc.date.issued	1986-11-29
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10822/552708
dc.description	The 1980s was a period of transformation for the United States Armed Services. With Cold War relations between the two superpowers increasingly strained, the Soviet Union and the United States competed for strategic advantage both within the ranks of their militaries and at the bargaining table. At the 1986 Reykjavik Summit in Iceland President Reagan proposed banning all ballistic missiles, briefly offering the hope of a world without nuclear weapons. The talks failed, however, and policymakers returned to the realization that deterrence formed the bedrock of American defense policy. In an attempt to strengthen the U.S. military's deterrence capability, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman implemented a strategy that would create a 600-ship Navy for the United States. Proponents of the plan maintained that Lehman's forward maritime strategy would secure America's strategic advantage over the Soviet Union, while critics argued that it was an expensive and unnecessary expansion of a field in which the United States had already achieved military superiority. In this episode Robert Komer, former Undersecretary of Defense and leading expert on American conventional military strategy, discusses the proposed 600-ship Navy and the prospects for America's nuclear deterrence. As policymakers reevaluate nuclear weapons and U.S. maritime strategy, Komer answers the questions, should the United States move to a 600-ship Navy, and would the United States be safer without nuclear weapons?	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Examines the prospects for a 600-ship Navy and the possibility of an American defense strategy without nuclear weapons.	en_US
dc.format.extent	28 min.	en_US
dc.format.medium	MPG4 H.264	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.relation	Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archive	en_US
dc.relation.uri	https://mediapilot.georgetown.edu:443/sharestream2gui/getMedia.do?action=streamMedia&mediaPath=0d21b62020c9a63f012145700d8801c7&cid=0d21b62018c663370119bf04f6be0a8b
dc.source	American Interests (show 609)	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	United States. Navy	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Nuclear warfare	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States	en_US
dc.subject.other	600-ship Navy	en_US
dc.subject.other	Reykjavik Summit	en_US
dc.subject.other	Nuclear Disarmament	en_US
dc.subject.other	United States Military Strategy	en_US
dc.title	A conversation with Robert Komer on U.S. maritime strategy	en_US
dc.coverage	Cold War	en_US
dc.coverage	Defense and National Security	en_US