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-====All US Navy attack submarines are nuclear-powered – key to check growing Russia tensions==== |
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-Eric Schmitt 16 senior writer who covers terrorism and national security issues for The New York Times. Since 2007, he has reported on terrorism issues, including assignments to Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Africa and Southeast Asia. He is the co-author, with The Times’s Thom Shanker, of "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Campaign Against Al Qaeda,” "Russia Bolsters Its Submarine Fleet, and Tensions With U.S. Rise," New York Times, 4-20-2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/world/europe/russia-bolsters-submarine-fleet-and-tensions-with-us-rise.html?_r=2, ghs//BZ |
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-NAPLES, Italy — Russian attack submarines, the most in two decades, are |
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-to deploy far from American shores, remain superior to their Russian counterparts. |
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-====US navy submarines are key to US naval power==== |
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-Cropsey 15 Seth Cropsey, 09/11/15 "China, Russia Are Challenging Our Navy: Is Our Submarine Program Prepared?," No Publication, http://www.hudson.org/research/11630-china-russia-are-challenging-our-navy-is-our-submarine-program-prepared//GHS-MR |
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-American naval power is being challenged. China’s operations near the Arctic, Russia’s attempted |
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-submarines require to continue their role as a critical element of American seapower. |
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-====Naval power is key for deterrence, controlling crises, and US projection of power==== |
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-NOAA 98, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Military Sealift Command, the U.S. Maritime Administration, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "The Oceans and National Security," The Oceans and National Security, xx-xx-xxxx, http://fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/nat_sec_316.html, ghs//BZ |
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-The role of naval power in U.S. military strategy is in transition |
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-seas is a fundamental condition for global peace, security, and prosperity. |
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-====US leadership solves global nuclear war and proliferation==== |
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-Khalilzad 95 Defense Analyst at RAND, (Zalmay, “Losing the Moment? The United States and the World After the Cold War” The Washington Quarterly, RETHINKING GRAND STRATEGY; Vol. 18, No. 2; Pg. 84) |
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-Under the third option, the United States would seek to retain global leadership and |
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-to global stability than a bipolar or a multipolar balance of power system. |