ABSTRACT
About 110 countries now possess organized naval forces. 1 Many of these are small, with few ships and personnel strengths numbered in hundreds, and often they evidently take third place in the hierarchy behind land and air forces. Nevertheless they exist, and the growth potential of new nations’ navies is shown by the great recent increase in missile armaments around the world; a scan of the literature suggests that this is available to the navies of about seventy nations.
