Close Aboard Bastion: A Soviet Ballistic Missile Submarine Deployment Strategy

摘要

This thesis describes and analyzes a possible deployment posture for the Soviet ballistic missile submarine force. It examines the proposition that the Soviet Navy will establish a point defense, labeled Close Aboard Bastions (CABs), for its ballistic missile submarine fleet within the Soviet claimed 12 nautical mile territorial sea. This is a logical derivation of the currently widely held view that the Soviets will establish derivation of current widely held view that the Soviets will establish a bastion defense for the strategic portion of their seagoing forces. The thesis concludes that the postulated CAB strategy is a viable option for the Soviet Union during a war that begins conventionally. Keywords: Bastions; Anti submarine warfare; Theses. (sdw)