This is the most up-to-the minute survey of the vital subject of
sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs) to appear in ten years. It
systematically analyzes the technological promises and weaknesses
of SLCMs, especially conventionally armed, land-attack versions,
explaining sophisticated technologies in language accessible to the
general reader. Eric H. Arnett presents a cogent assessment of the
crux of the SLCM issue for U.S. security, examining the coastal
nation concept of the U.S. defensive position and investigating
whether technology can adequately compensate for geography as
Tomahawks and their Soviet counterparts give way to more advanced
progeny. Arnett weighs the trade-offs in a frank discussion of the
technologies and missions envisioned for current and future SLCMs.
This well-researched, authoritative study evaluates both U.S. and
Soviet SLCM arsenals, examines the role of arms control and
unilateral initiatives in managing the dangers of SLCMs, and
critically assesses the claims made for the Tomahawk conventionally
armed cruise missile. The relevance of a changing international
scene and domestic fiscal chaos to SLCM issues is fully
appraised.
The book's eight chapters lead the reader through all aspects of
this complex field with admirable lucidity. Early chapters describe
missions envisioned for U.S. conventionally armed SLCMs, and assess
actual SLCM technology. Chapter 4 addresses the reciprocal problem
of Soviet SLCMs, describing possible and likely roles of Soviet
nuclear and conventionally armed SLCMs and the importance of
offering responses. The increasingly important question of how
SLCMs might be used in the developing world, both by and against
U.S. forces and security partners is considered in Chapter 5--an
especially relevant discussion in light of the apparent success of
the Tomahawk SLCM in the 1991 war with Iraq. The next two chapters
describe SLCM arms control as it has been practiced and discuss,
from two vantage points, the roles of future arms-control and
unilateral disarmament initiatives in addressing the disadvantages
of SLCMs. Finally, the immediate implications of the previous
chapters for policy practitioners are developed in a chapter that
focuses on specific policy recommendations. This timely
contribution is a reliable source of information on SLCMs for the
interested public, the non-government arms control community, naval
personnel, and members of both Congress and the administration.
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