ABSTRACT
Land-based missiles can strike naval targets; submarine-launched ballistic missiles can attack targets deep in the interior of a nation. The tendency to place increasing numbers of strategic nuclear forces at sea has greatly complicated the role of the navy. Military science has the task of finding solutions to these new problems. Naval art, like any other scientific theory, is closely connected with practice and rests on the experience of past wars and the varied experience of operational and combat training conducted in peacetime. The Soviet Union has a single military strategy, reflecting the policies of the Communist Party. With the military might of the Soviet Armed Forces united in such a strategy, "the organized whole becomes much larger than the simple sum of its parts." The principle of unity of military strategy objectively arose at the time of the appearance of different kinds of armed forces.
