ABSTRACT
The seas and oceans have always been an arena of fierce contention among colonialists, imperialists and hegemonists. The scramble for maritime hegemony figures high in the global strategy of Soviet social-imperialism in its bid for world domination. The Soviet Union deploys a fleet of over twenty warships in the Indian Ocean and has set up floats for anchoring warships and actually grabbed the right to use a dozen or so ports and military bases in the area. On the strength of all this, it has carried out threats, infiltration and aggression against the coastal countries in a vain attempt to establish its hegemony in the Indian Ocean. Soviet fleets are just as unbridled in other areas.
