included logistics and infrastructure oil tanks, aviation fuel supplies, communications sites, and bridges.
The nuclear era did not prevent limited war. The 1960s were a decade of considerable challenge for both the US Navy and the Royal Navy. We will look at operations in due course, but before we do let us examine the technological challenges posed by the Soviet and Warsaw Pact threat and the ways in which the two competing systems, communism and capitalism, vied with one another in unprecedented ways to gain the military edge at all levels of naval warfare. The 1960s witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis, the war in Vietnam, the Six Day War in the Middle East of June 1967, the United Kingdom’s confrontation with Indonesia in support of its former colony, Malaysia, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. They also saw the beginning of a space race and, most important of all, confrontation at sea on a scale and in ways not seen before in peacetime.
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