Incidents at Sea: American Confrontation and Cooperation with Russia and China, 1945-2016

by John Warner and David F. Winkler

Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.S. and Soviet naval and air forces made daily direct contact during the Cold War. Often confrontational and occasionally violent, air-to-air contacts alone killed more than one hundred Soviet and American aviators during the Truman and Eisenhower years. Diplomacy to curtail the hostility produced mixed results. By the 1960s the Soviet navy had challenged U.S. naval dominance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682471977
• ISBN13: 9781682471975
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 10.3"