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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
It is always nice to hear that we done something right particularly when that comes from distinguished Marine. In the February 2008 Proceedings, Lieutenant General Bernard E. Trainor correctly credited the maritime strategy of the 1980 with making and visibly exercising the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps for seizing the initiative at the outset of war. Not surprisingly, the general focused on the role the Navy and Marines on NATO's northern flank as an important manifestation of that strategy. However, for those of us who gave birth to the Maritime Strategy at CINCPACFLT headquarters at Makalapa, Hawali, in the summer and fall of 1977, the offensive operations on the northern flank of Europe that came to be practiced in the 1980's were frankly an unintended consequence.
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