Norman Friedman,
in Orbis (Winter 1983), 3508 Market St.,
Revisited Suite 350, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
When a sea-skimming Argentine Exocet missile sank the British de- stroyer Sheffield off the Falkland Islands last year, some U.S. defense analysts declared that the incident proved that sophisticated missiles have rendered large warships obsolete.
But Friedman, a Hudson Institute staff member, contends that the lessons for U.S. defense planners are precisely the opposite. The Falk- lands...