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Program (19690117)
<< Prev Next >>| Program Number: | 19690117 |
| Title: | The Mess in the Merchant Marine |
| Program Date: | Jan 17, 1969 |
| Location: | California |
| Duration: | 01:01:22 (hh:mm:ss) |
| Summary: | Major General Duchein argues that a strong merchant marine is central to the national interest. He argues there are both commercial and defense implications. On the commercial aspect, he notes the efficiency of sea shipping as well as the fact that man cannot walk on 3/4ths of the Earth's surface. On the defense angle, he argues Sputnik shocked America into its space program, and a similar situation is developing with the Soviet's merchant marine. Though not as dramatic as Sputnick, the exploding Soviet maritime strength has far more ominous political, economic and military implications. The U.S. has paid the price in Vietnam for its dependence, admittedly small, upon foreign ships in time of war. Duchein proposes a five-point program to give the U.S. merchant fleet a pre-eminent world oceanic position. |
| Speaker(s): | Duchein, Charles F. - Major general, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 1966-[?]; president, Navy League of the United States (1969) |
| Sample Audio: | - |
| Subject Heading(s): | Merchant marine -- United States. Sea-power -- United States. Merchant marine -- Soviet Union. Naval strategy. Shipping -- United States. |
| Related Document(s): | - |
| Related Collection(s): | - |
| Copyright: | For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. |
| Last update: | Jul 8, 2011 |