Naval strengths
Sir, — Your leading articles last Saturday and Monday each left something unsaid. “A government
... in an uncertain and aggressive world cannot afford the luxuries of unattainable idealism ...” What might in pre-1945 days have been "attainable idealism” is essential realism in the nuclear age. The second discussed Russian naval expansion, but gave no indication of its actual strength. My guess is, taking technology and efficiency into account, that the full Soviet naval strength would not amount to 20 per cent of that available to the Western powers. Moreover, the Soviet Navy is scattered over five, mainly landlocked, seas. It is an ironical comment on the shortsightedness of American diplomacy that if it had taken the opportunity to help Vietnam economically after the war, Russia would not have stepped in instead and be ensconced in Cam Ranh Bay. — Yours, etc., VERNON WILKINSON. April 9, 1984.
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