Russia has a 'pipe dream' of replacing the US as the world's dominant naval power

In the November issue of the US Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine,Commander Daniel Thomassen of the Royal Norwegian Navy argued that Russia's dream to build a blue water, or global, navy remains a "pipe dream." Russia's navy has made headlines recently with high profile cruise missile strikes on Syria, and the deployment of the core of itsnorther fleet, including the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier, to the Mediterranean. According to Thomassen, Russia's navy has considerable regional defense and ...