Estimated Soviet Defense Spending, Trends and Prospects
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Page : 14 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Soviet Union
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Author :
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Page : 14 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Soviet Union
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Author : National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.)
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Russia
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Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Page : 14 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Soviet Union
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Author : Noel E. Firth
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890968055
During the Cold War, when the United States' intelligence efforts were focused on the Soviet Union, one of the primary tasks of the Central Intelligence Agency was to estimate Soviet defense spending. In Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990, Noel E. Firth and James H. Noren, who spent much of their long CIA careers estimating and studying Soviet defense spending, provide a closer look at those estimates and consider how and why they were made. In the process, the authors chronicle the development of a significant intelligence analytic capability. Firth and Noren also explain what the CIA has learned since the collapse of the Soviet Union about the USSR's actual military spending during the Cold War.
Author : Abraham Samuel Becker
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Budget
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Oversight
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Government publications
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Author : Abraham Samuel Becker
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Military readiness
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Not too many years ago, the burden of Soviet defense seemed a secondary issue. The conventional estimates of the size of the burden were low and the Soviet economy was growing rapidly. Now, the era of rapid growth seems to have come to an end and the Western estimates of the burden are much higher. The conjunction generates intense interest in the relation between the two developments. Especially important is the role of the defense burden in shaping future growth prospects. How serious a drag on the economy does the Soviet military budget represent? Is cutting defense spending the solution to current Soviet economic problems? Will the military budget nevertheless continue to grow? These questions are the focus of the present paper. The first section considers the various estimates of the size of the Soviet defense burden. It is followed by a discussion of the connections between defense burden and resource allocation choices. A final section speculates on the implications for future defense spending.
Author : Richard F. Kaufman
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Economic forecasting
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Author : Keith Crane
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1977401953
The authors assess how Russian military forces are postured and resourced and how they are likely to operate. They also discuss the goals and effects of Russian military reform efforts, including initiatives that span all of the Russian armed forces’ services and independent branches. Touching on most of Russia’s armed forces’ major capabilities, the authors conclude with a look at how those capabilities are being integrated in practice.
Author : Thomas P. Reeves
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Soviet Union
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