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Article: A new book about Russia's navy.(Book review)
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- Military Thought
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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A new book by Fleet Admiral Ivan Kapitanets, Strong Navy--Strong Russia, (1) is off the presses.
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The author is one of the merited heads of the navy and a member of the brilliant postwar constellation of Soviet fleet commanders and major naval chiefs, who helped to bring into existence our oceangoing missile-carrying fleet. It is under their leadership that the Soviet Union's Navy achieved, by the mid-1980s, the peak of its combat might, emerging as second in the world after the U.S. Navy in the number of carriers and their combat capabilities.
The Fleet Admiral Kapitanets' career (commander of a destroyer, a brigade of ...