Soviet Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Challenging the US Navy for Command of the Sea

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In the beginning of the Cold War, there was a common perception that the Soviet Union was fundamentally a land power with a huge army, but that the sea was ruled completely by the United States and its allies. Yet, from the end of the 1960’s, Western naval analysts observed that the Soviet Navy was beginning to build powerful surface warships. This came as a real shock for the West.
The man who stood behind the radical modernisation of the Soviet Navy was Admiral Sergei Gorshkov. This was the largest peacetime accumulation of warships to date. In this video, we look at the life, the career, and the naval thinking of Admiral Gorshkov, the builder of the Red Fleet. This is a story of how a single individual can have an enormous impact on history through cunning, willpower, and some degree of luck.

References (all books available digitally on Amazon):
Admiral Gorshkov – The Man who Challenged the US Navy, by Norman Polmar, Thomas Brooks, and George Fedoroff
21st Century Gorshkov: The Challenge of Seapower in the Modern Era, edited by Kevin Rowlands
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Love these more historical videos. Keep it up!

holarryho
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This shows that politics and military should be independent from each other

isaacaddey
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When you're passionate about your job you're not working because you're actively engaged in your hobby.

WildsDreams
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I remember seeing a news story on Aussie TV (American production) back in the day called 'Power in the Pacific' to do with the rise of the Soviet navy in the Pacific region. Would love to see that again, but have never found it.

jkaposi
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Read Gorhkovs book its an insperation. Outstading reading at any airport insomnia outta there.

JeffreyWilliams-drqe
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"Andrei,  you've lost another submarine?"

-TheOracle-
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Gorshkov's signature work, "Seapower and the State", was recommended reading for US Naval Officers. Of course, we had an English translation, very very few of us could read it in Russian. I found it to be a turgid, unreadable mess. Perhaps it lost in translation, but I don't really think that was the case.

jimpollard
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'Voracious' does not seem fitting as an adjective for creativity

jamesbugbee
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This video is actually genuinely underrated

RADICALFLOAT
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Make a video on zulfiqar class frigate of pakistan.

Adityasingh
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Su retiro en 1985 fue muy sencillo:el culpable gorbachob; ya q si misión era destruir la URSS y empezó con destituir a este gran almirante

GiannyBaez