Cold War Anti-Submarine Warfare

Norman Friedman PhD. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

504 Seiten

2025
Naval Institute Press (Verlag)
978-1-68247-857-8 (ISBN)

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As enmity between China and Russia and the West deepens, and as the Chinese navy grows, the United States finds itself more and more in the situation it faced during the Cold War. Again, the United States depends on access to the world, and again a possible enemy is building a massive navy intended to cut off the U.S., which may well have to fight for the seas. In doing so, it is helpful to look back to the closest analogy—the struggle against the Soviet navy. For the first time, this book brings together enough of the declassified record—and enough of what the Russians published during their brief period of openness—to tell the story of the great Cold War anti-submarine warfare (ASW) struggle.

This book explains what happened and how the West won that fight. Although technology has changed, history is the best guide for future operations and to understand how different strategies and tactics can affect outcomes. The experience of post—Cold War ASW is much less relevant because it was conducted on a much smaller scale and generally in waters very different from the oceans of the Cold War. Unfortunately, much of what happened during the Cold War has been forgotten. The senior officers who understood the ASW fight have long since retired.

Author Norman Friedman is extraordinarily well placed to examine what happened and why. He has published books not only on Cold War ships and aircraft, but also on Cold War strategy, including the award-winning Fifty-Year War, and on the naval weapons and sensors of the Cold War. He has written design histories of U.S. and British submarines and surface ASW ships of the Cold War based on declassified documents. In this book he emphasizes that there was no single Cold War ASW strategy because the character of the war changed greatly over time. This variety of themes makes it possible to consider alternative parallels to the present and the future.

Norman Friedman is a prominent defense analyst and historian specializing in the intersection between policy, strategy, and technology, mainly in a naval context. He has published more than forty books. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Commodore Dudley W. Knox medal by the Naval Historical Foundation, the Samuel Eliot Morrison award by the Naval Order of the United States, the Westminster Prize awarded by the Royal United Service Institute, and the Anderson Medal of the British Society for Nautical Research. He has twice received the John Lyman Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History. He lives in New York City.

Contents
1.         The Cold War and ASW
2.         Finding Submarines: Sound in the Sea
3.         Legacy
4.         New Kinds of Submarine
5.         Facing the Postwar Nightmare
6.         The Crisis and Its Solution
7.         The Mobilization Decade: The Fifties
8.         The Nuclear Revolution
9.         Fighting a New Soviet Submarine Generation
10.       End-Game

Acknowledgments
Appendices
A.        Ship and Aircraft Sonars
B.        Submarine Sonars
C.        Torpedoes

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	226 b/w photos
Verlagsort	Annopolis
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 279 mm
Gewicht	1655 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-68247-857-2 / 1682478572
ISBN-13	978-1-68247-857-8 / 9781682478578
Zustand	Neuware