Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aden and Iraq. The U.S. believes the Soviets aim at cutting off oil supplies, and it "surges" an eastern task force into the Indian Ocean. This includes an aircraft-carrier strike group, a convoy escort group, attack submarines and antisubmarine patrol planes. The Soviet forces in the area include land-based bombers, missile-firing submarines, cruisers, destroyers and high-speed missile boats. The computer?the Warfare Analysis and Research System (WARS)?projects a display of the positions, speeds and courses of the ships involved on two 15-ft. screens on the back wall of the big room...
...amphibious activity off Lebanon's coast bolstered a friendly government in Beirut. More recently, the rescue of the U.S. freighter Mayaguez in 1975 after its capture by Cambodian Communists demonstrated America's continuing interest in Southeast Asia. "Ships are easier to move about than are Army or land-based aircraft units," the Brookings report said. "Naval forces can remain near by but out of sight. Thus naval forces can be used more subtly to support foreign policy incentives?to underscore threats, or warnings, or promises or commitments?than can land-based units, and they can do so without necessarily tying...
...bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support of Greece and Turkey. From the North Atlantic's Second Fleet, planes could strike the mammoth Soviet naval facilities on the Kola Peninsula or dispatch amphibious landing forces to Norway to help blunt a Red Army invasion. One advantage of relying on carrier-based power, according to Senator Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat who chairs the Military Construction and Stockpiles Subcommittee, is that "we may be evicted [from land airbases] with a change of government...
...allies except Canada. The Atlantic Alliance's ability to repel a Soviet invasion depends on reinforcements and supplies arriving from the U.S. after the fighting starts. Since airlifts can transport only a tiny fraction of this, the bulk of the critically important resupply could be sunk by Soviet submarines, land-based aircraft and surface vessels. To prevent this, contend Navy officers, U.S. warships, armed with antisubmarine and antimissile weapons, must escort supply convoys across the Atlantic. Not only is this naval capacity needed in case of all-out war, it could be required in some future Middle East crisis...
...potential for pinpoint accuracy at long range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy's carriers could survive off the coast of Norway, where they are certain to be blitzed by swarms of Soviet submarines and land-based bombers as soon as hostilities erupt...