A Note on Formal Discipline and Mathematics

Holding the Bridge in Troubled Times: The Cold War and the Navies of Europe

“…In the 1957 exercise series, for example, hundreds of atomic strikes were made on targets in Norway and the Kola Peninsula; one of the clearest lessons to emerge was the need to de-conflict the large-scale atomic strike plans of the carrier force and 'external air forces'. 58 Although with the acquisition of the 'Red Beard' atomic bomb, the British seemed set on developing their own nuclear strike capability, this remained almost exclusively an American capacity: even so, the British seemed to be thinking largely of using Red Beard against naval targets, including bases, ships at sea and in harbor, rather than in direct support for the land campaign. 59 By the mid-1960s, however, there was more stress on conventional maritime power projection.…”