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The military and political uses of Soviet seapower receive frequent comment and some see it growing beyond all legitimate bounds. This paper considers those uses, includes the major (but often overlooked) economic and commercial requirements of a maritime state, discusses its weaknesses and constraints, and assesses the threat it poses to the United States.

Demographic, economic, and ethnic problems have reduced the quality of Soviet Naval personnel. Frictions between Soviet Navy and defense industry have contributed to increasingly poor reliability of naval platforms and weapons. The logical solution is to reduce the size of the Soviet Navy. Mikhail Gorbachev has proclaimed a new military doctrine of reliance on high quality military manpower, military hardware and military science instead of their quantity. This doctrine is of great importance to the Soviet navy, which is experiencing serious problems with the quality of its men and hardware in the aftermath of the great quantitative (as well as qualitative) expansion of the 1960s-1980s ; Naval Operations Intelligence Center, 0P-03 ; http://archive.org/details/men00tsyp ; O&MN, Direct Funding ; NA ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.