UID:
almahu_9947414978902882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 282 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511559259 (ebook)
Content:
The Soviet Union remains a superpower with global security interests and ambitions. The doctrines, practices, and capabilities of its still formidable armed forces are shaping world politics just at the same time that the future of the country that created them is in doubt. This book, first published in 1991, analyses the unprecedented changes, as well as the troubling continuities, that characterized Soviet military thinking during the early 1990s. The authors - a group of leading analysts in the US national security community - confront the range of Soviet military strengths, including intercontinental nuclear power, conventional ground, and naval forces and special operations. They address questions of Soviet weapons research and development, military planning and policy making, and the role of civilian critics on Soviet military objectives. Other chapters explore the Red Army's erosion in Eastern Europe as well as the lessons of Afghanistan.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. The stakes of power / Derek Leebaert -- pt. I. The instruments of power. 2. Soviet nuclear strategy and new military thinking / Colin S. Gray. 3. The tightening frame: mutual security and the future of strategic arms limitation / Raymond L. Garthoff -- pt. II. Below the threshold. 4. Soviet theater forces on a descending path / Edward B. Atkeson. 5. Protection from one's friends: the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact / Christopher Jones. 6. Red Star of the sea: the Soviet Navy and strategic policy / Gael Donelan Tarleton -- pt. III. Managing the mission. 7. Counter-insurgency and the lessons of Afghanistan / David Isby. 8. New weapons and the attempts at technical change / Mikhail Tsypkin. 9. A generation too late: civilian analysis and Soviet military thinking / Benjamin S. Lambeth. 10. The other side of the hill: Soviet military foresight and forecasting / Jacob W. Kipp.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521404297
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511559259
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