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>IncSea, games of "chicken," and fortunate timing
David F Winkler. Sea Power. Washington: Apr 2001

[Winkler discusses the signing of the Agreement for the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas between the United States and the Soviet Union. This year marks the 29th anniversary of the signing, and naval officers from the US and Russia will once again meet, per the agreement, to review the implementation procedures.]

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The need for an agreement to regulate the increasingly aggressive behaviors of the two navies had become readily apparent in the 1960s as the growing Soviet Navy ventured out onto the world's oceans to challenge U.S. maritime supremacy. Soviet spy trawlers were cutting into U.S. carrier task forces to interfere with flight and replenishment operations. Meanwhile, American warplanes were "buzzing" Soviet ships with low-level passes. On 10 and 11 May 1967 the destroyer USS Walker was bumped by two different Soviet destroyers that had been attempting to close on the carrier USS Hornet during operations in the Sea of Japan. When he was chief of naval operations, Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt recalled being harassed in the Baltic while in command of the destroyer USS Dewey. Zumwalt referred to the incidents as games of "chicken" and expressed concern that Sailors could be unintentionally injured or even killed. In fact, a number of Soviet Sailors were killed when the British carrier HMS Ark Royal sliced into a Soviet destroyer on 9 November 1970.
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