Admiral Gorshkov, the creator of the modern Soviet Navy, is widely acknowledges to be his country's most brilliant naval strategist of this or any period in history. He has made the Soviet Union into a world sea power for the first time. In this book Admiral Gorshkov examines the concept of sea power as it has been understood and put to work by different nations. He then shows how the complex operations of a modern fleet, military or civilian, have their place in the politics and defence of the USSR. --- from book's back cover
