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''Today our [highly mobile, missile-equipped, Soviet] wartime
navy plays a universal role. lt is able to fight under water, above the water, and in the air.
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worry about an imminent atomic at–
tack. 8oth Americans and Britons
view civi l defense as an essentially
fruitless endeavor. Obviously, the
Russians think otherwise.
In a
Plncers Movement
The Wes tern world is beíng caught
in a modern-day. space-age "pincers
movement." Not only has our land–
based nuclear superiority appar–
ently disappeared. but also our mo–
nopoly on sea power. Britannia
ruled the waves for severa! cen–
turies. And even after British mili–
tary sea power began to wane, there
was always the presence of the
mighty U.S. Sixth Fleet.
The P/ain Trwh
warned of the
sharp escalation of Soviet sea power
as early a 1968. However. at that
time it could
s1ill be said
that " the
USSR is No. 2 in sea power when
compared to U.S. strength" ("The
Growing Specter of Soviet Sea
Power in the Mediterranean ," Octo–
ber 1968).
Even then the Russians were
making heavy inroads into the over–
all maritime picture.
The Plain
Trwh
reported at that time: "AI–
ready [in 1968] the Soviet sub–
marine fleet outnumbers that of the
U.S. 'The Red navy now possesses a
submarine fleet which can bring Eu–
rope and the United States under
fire with 130 to 200 nuclear war–
headed ballistic missiles. An in–
crease ... to 300 by 1972 is
planned ..
.'(Atlas,
July 1968)."
Remember. this was the grim sit–
uation back in 1968. Since then the
U.S. position has steadily worsened.
Jane's Fighting Ships,
the author–
itative reference for the world's
navies, now reports that the Soviet
Union has
three times
as many sub–
marines as the U.S.
The Russians understand that a
modern. highly mobile, missile–
equipped navy roaming about in
the seventy percent of the earth's
surface that is water
is
one of the
most effective ways to gain control
ofthe thirty percent that is land.
A modern navy's mobility enablcs
it to move to trouble spots far from
home and close to enemy shores.
The
PLAIN TRUTH March 1977
Sergei Gorshkov
Admiral Gorshkov summed up tbe
Soviet situat ion for
Pravda
back in
February of 1968: "Today our war–
time navy plays a universal role. It
is able to fight under water, above
the water, and in the a ir."
Since then Admira! Gorshkov has
written a book called
The Marilime
Power of the State.
In it he outlínes
total global supremacy at sea for the
Soviet Union. But not as an end in
itself - only the means to the
greater overall purpose of world
dominance.
Does anyone in his right mind
actually believe that the Soviet lead–
ers have given up their long-term
goal of total world domination? The
truth is that the
basic
overall com–
munist goal has not changed one
little bit since the Russian Revolu–
tion of 1917.
Time Running Out
Time
is
running out on the Western
world. Gradually we are being ma–
neuvered into a "vulnerable and un–
tenable global situation," as one
author expressed it. Our leaders are
surveying various options open to
them. For instance. one option
wou ld be to make Red China an
ally of the United States in order to
offset Soviet mi litary superiority. To
effectively bring this about would
undoubtedly be difficult. if not
im–
possible.
The
p~in
fuctsare. weare
fuM
running out of practica! options. To
catch up and pass Soviet military
strength would require a larger de-
fense budget than either Congress
or the public would ever allow. Yet
to stand still militarily means a
wider and wider strategic gap be–
tween the two superpowers - with
America on the down side.
" Buying allies" is an expensive
and dirty business these days. Un–
failingly many such "allies" seem to
vote against the United States in
any critical United Nations General
Assembly vote.
Really, the only workable option
left open to Britain and America is
lo trust God!
But to
seriously
suggest
that we ought to turn to God in all
our troubles sounds humorous to
many. For a member of Congress
(oran M. P.) to stand up and with a
straight face say that we ought to
repent of our national sins and
crimes and nationally go to God on
our knees, asking forgiveness
through Jesus Christ. might invite
the following reaction from feUow
parliamentarians:
An instant ripple of laughter
would softly ftow across the big hall,
as legislators shifted positions,
crossed and uncrossed legs. looked
at one another incredulously,
doodled on notepaper and silently
wished the speaker would sit down
and shut up.
To hear a leader of government
propase such a "ridiculous" solution
to Western world affairs
is
to won–
der if the poor manis suffering from
a serious brain disease. That some–
one would dare to actually inject
religion into an august legislative
session would be the very heigbt of
effrontery.
To
seriously
suggest that Jesus
Christ of Nazareth
is
our
only hope
for true and lasting peace would
place the legislator in the position of
"rel igious fanatic" - instantly de–
stroying his credibility - and would
for all practica! purposes ruin his
political career.
To be sure, thousands have
chuckled. chortled, sneered or
laughed openly at loud Bible–
tbumping sermons warning of Jesus'
impending return - and even at the
more polished assertions of such a
futuristic event in the more cultured
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