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Analogous Response was a term of analytical shorthand that American strategists and intelligence analysts developed in late 1983 and early 1984. The term characterized in two words a Soviet maritime strategy of deploying off the U.S. coast submarines armed with nuclear SLCMs. By making that deployment, the Soviet leadership could establish an endo-atmospheric nuclear threat to the continental United States (CONUS) that Marshal Nikolay V. Ogarkov, chief of the General Staff of the USSR, described as follows: “The Soviet systems to be deployed in the oceans and seas and relevant to the territory of the United States itself will be no less effective than American systems that are being deployed in Europe, in range, yield, accuracy, and, what is especially important, in time of flight to their targets.”
ISBN
978-1-935352-84-6
Publication Date
2024
Publisher
U.S. Naval War College Press
City
Newport, Rhode Island
Keywords
Newport Papers, Deterrence, Cold War, Russia, Nukes, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Submarine, Ballistic Submarine
Recommended Citation
Burke, Jerome J., "Analogous Response Redux: Vladimir Putin’s Aspirations for Altering the Maritime Balance" (2024). Newport Papers. 47.
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/usnwc-newport-papers/47
