Superpower showdown in the Mediterranean, 1973

From: Sea Power | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

U.S., Soviets Nearly Clash at Sea as Israeli, Arab Forces Slug it Out Ashore

Thirty years ago this month the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict spawned the most severe naval crisis of the Cold War. On Oct. 24 Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev threatened to enforce a cease-fire through unilateral intervention. By that time Soviet naval forces in the Mediterranean had swelled to 80 ships and counting, including 47 combatants capable of launching at least 40 cruise missiles in a first salvo. Seven airborne divisions in the southern area of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)-a total of ...

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