as the "600-ship Navy", were scaled back or abandoned. US bases across Europe and North America were slowly decommissioned and closed, others were mothballed through the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. In the Navy, this resulted in the retirement of several older carriers, the decommissioning of all four of the Iowa-class battleships and the cancellation of the remaining s. See also Cold War (1979–1985) Cold War (1985–1991) List of ships of the United States Navy National Defense Reserve Fleet United States Navy ships References Further reading NSC-NSDD-32: U.S. National Security Strategy – The White House, May 20, 1982. archive listings Congressional Budget Office: Building a 600-Ship Navy: Costs, Timing, and Alternative Approaches. March 1982 Manpower for a 600-Ship Navy: Costs and Policy Alternatives. August 1983 GlobalSecurity.org Ship Building 1981–89. Reagan, Ronald Naval Historical Center: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War Era, 1945–1991 NWP 1 – Strategic Concepts of the Navy. February 1987 Naval War College: John B. Hattendorf. "The Evolution of the U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977–1986" Naval War College Newport Paper 19 (2004), . Available in PDF format here and here United States Naval Institute: Lieutenant General Bernard E. Trainor, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired). "Triumph in Strategic Thinking". United States Naval Institute Proceedings Vol. 134, No. 2 (February 2008) pp. 40–42 Norman Friedman. "The Navy, the Cold War – and Now" United States Naval Institute Proceedings Vol. 133, No. 10 (October 2007) pp. 58–62 External links U.S. Naval Strategy During the Cold War from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives Building a 600 Ship Navy: The Congressional Budget Office Report N United States Navy in the 20th century