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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by sailfast on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:23PM (#15011857)
Considering the cold war relatively peaceful at sea is interesting, firstly.

Secondly, I would argue that the reason the seas have been free from "major conflict" over the last 60 years is in no small measure due to the preponderance of naval power wielded by the United States and Russia. If odds had not been overwhelming, do you think there would have been less conflict, or more?

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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by astrodust on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:40PM (#15012662)
Russia doesn't have much of a navy excluding nuclear submarines and the only reason those are a problem is because of the megaton-yield nuclear weapons they carry.
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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by gozur88 on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:59PM (#15013386)
I doubt anything but nukes kept the US and Russia from going to war. Hell, aside from a few screwups, we almost went to war despite the nukes in 1963.
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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by dctoedt on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:14PM (#15014545)
It was actually 1962 (Cuban Missile Crisis) and 1983 (false alarm) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

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Re:The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two ‘islands’ by gozur88 on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:57PM (#15014997)
'62 then. We may have gone to war accidentally in '83, but in '62 it would have been on purpose, with full knowledge of what it entailed.
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