Admiral Gorshkov

Admiral Gorshkov
Author: Norman C Polmar
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1682473325

Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei G. Gorshkov was the product of a tradition unlike those of his Western contemporaries. He had a unique background of revolution, civil war, world wars, and the forceful implementation of an all-controlling communist dictatorship. Out of this background of violence and overwhelming transformation came a man with a vivid appreciation of the role and value of navies, but with his own unique ideas about the kind of navy that the Soviet Union required and the role that navy should play in Soviet military and national strategy. Western naval observers have persisted in attempting to define Admiral Gorshkov in Western naval terms. Many of these observers have been baffled when they found that the man and his actions simply did not fit conventional narratives. This book lays out the tradition, background, experiences, and thinking of the man as they relate to the development of the Soviet Navy that Gorshkov commanded for almost three decades and that was able to directly challenge the maritime dominance of the United States—a traditional sea power. His influence persists to this day, as the Russian Navy that is at sea in the twenty-first century is, to a significant degree, based on the fleet that Admiral Gorshkov built.

The Sea Power of the State

The Sea Power of the State
Author: S.G. Gorshkov
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483285464

Admiral Gorshkov has transformed the Soviet fleet into a world sea power for the first time in Russian history. He is Russia's most brilliant naval strategist of all time. He has created the modern Soviet navy. His book examines the main components of sea power among which attention is focused on the naval fleet of the present day, capable of conducting operations and solving strategic tasks in different regions of the world's oceans, together with other branches of the armed forces and independently

The Sea Power of the State

The Sea Power of the State
Author: Сергей Георгиевич Горшков
Publisher: Pergamon
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN:

Admiral Gorshkov has transformed the Soviet fleet into a world sea power for the first time in Russian history. He is Russia's most brilliant naval strategist of all time. He has created the modern Soviet navy. His book examines the main components of sea power among which attention is focused on the naval fleet of the present day, capable of conducting operations and solving strategic tasks in different regions of the world's oceans, together with other branches of the armed forces and independently

Admiral Gorshkov on "Navies in War and Peace" - Analysis of the Cold War Soviet Navy, Use of Russian Naval Forces in Wartime and Peacetime, USSR Military Strategy, Politico-Strategic Approach to War

Admiral Gorshkov on
Author: U. S. Military
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2017-04-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781521100516

This unique book summarizes and analyzes the series of articles entitled "Navies in War and Peace" by Soviet Navy Commander-in-Chief, Admiral of the Fleet Sergey Gorshkov, USSR, during the Cold War. The analysis by three analysts of the Soviet Navy covers several aspects of the Gorshkov articles: the possibility that they reveal an internal debate over Soviet naval missions and budgets, their implications for the future course of Soviet naval construction, and their meaning for the use of Soviet naval forces in wartime and peacetime. "Navies in war and peace: " Content, context, and significance * Admiral Gorshkov's statement . * Subject and objectives * Central argument * Historical discussion * Discussion of the present * The context of Gorshkov's statement * Possible political influences on publication * Comparison with other statements * Conclusions * Notes * Advocacy of seapower in an internal debate * Gorshkov is advocating * The debate * The wider debate and cleavage in high political circles * The debate clarifies Soviet naval developments * The crux of the naval debate and its current status * The subjects of the naval policy debate * Gorshkov's argument and his view of the navy * Concluding comments * Notes * Gorshkov's doctrine of coercive naval diplomacy in both peace and war * Gorshkov's main points * Interpretation of Gorshkov * "Politico-strategic" approach to war * Withholding strategy * Survivability of SSBNs * Safeguarding the submarine * Diverting enemy ASW forces * Problems of interpretation * Deterrence * "Defense" and "combat" capabilities * "Defense" as the "main task" * Naval missions in support of state interests * Protection of state interests * Local war * Requirements for state interest and local war missions * Polemics in the Gorshkov series * Against the marshals * Against naval limitations * Notes

Admiral Gorshkov Frigate Reveals Serious Shortcomings in Russia's Naval Modernization Program

Admiral Gorshkov Frigate Reveals Serious Shortcomings in Russia's Naval Modernization Program
Author: Paul Schwartz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release:
Genre: Frigates
ISBN:

After 10 long years, the Russian navy is still waiting for its first Admiral Gorshkov–class frigate. Meanwhile, to fulfill its expected mission, the fleet has been forced to continue to make do with a collection of aging Soviet-era vessels. But these can no longer be fielded in sufficient numbers to do the job because of the increasing costs and difficulties of just keeping them in service. According to Ilya Kramnik, the Russian fleet now needs at least 20 modern frigates just to maintain its existing operational capacity, which has been steadily declining due to the increasing obsolescence of the warships in its fleet. Perhaps 2016 will finally turn out to be the year that the fleet receives its first Gorshkov-class frigate. But given the ship’s tortuous history and continuing problems with the development of key weapon systems, further delays seem just as likely. In fact, the program has acquired all of the hallmarks of a runaway project.

Architects of Continental Seapower

Architects of Continental Seapower
Author: Jeremy Stocker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000198626

This book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov. It examines the men, what they thought and wrote about seapower, the fleets they created and the strategic consequences of what they did. More broadly, it draws on the respective histories of the post-1897 Imperial German Navy and the post-1956 Soviet Navy to examine the continental bid for large-scale seapower. The work argues that both individuals built navies that did not, and could not, fulfil the objectives for which they were created. Drawing on the legacies of both men, the book also develops some wider ideas about the creation of large navies by continental states, with cautionary lessons for today’s emerging powers, India and China. Both admirals have received book-length biographies, but this is the first attempt at a comparative study and the first to draw broader strategic lessons from their respective attempts as continental navalists to challenge maritime states. This book will be of much interest to students of naval history, strategic studies and International Relations.

Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet

Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet
Author: Jurgen Rohwer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351547844

In this work, two senior naval historians analyze the discussions held in leading Soviet political, military, and naval circles concerning naval strategy and the decisions taken for warship-building programmes. They describe the reconstitution of the fleet under difficult conditions from the end of the Civil War up to the mid-1920s, leading to a change from classical naval strategy to a Jeune ecole model in the first two Five-Year Plans, including efforts to obtain foreign assistance in the design of warships and submarines. Their aim is to explain the reasons for the sudden change in 1935 to begin building a big ocean-going fleet. After a period of co-operation with Germany from 1939-41, the plans came to a halt when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in 1941. Finally, this work covers the reopening of the naval planning processes in 1944 and 1945 and the discussions of the naval leadership with Stalin, the party and government officials about the direction of the new building programmes as the Cold War began.