Book Description
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.
Author : Derek Leebaert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521407694
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.
Author : Derek Leebaert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1000264823
This book, first published in 1981, examines the influences affecting Soviet military thinking planning and theory in the later Cold War. It offers for the first time an insight into the range of premises and calculations surrounding the Soviet conception of power, and makes the connection between Soviet studies and military strategy, a link often missed in the West. It discusses comparative doctrines, cultural differences, arms control and specific security challenges between East and West.
Author : Vasiliĭ Danilovich Sokolovskiĭ
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Strategy
ISBN :
Author : Andrei A. Kokoshin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262611381
During the Cold War, Westerners were obsessed with the military policies of the Soviet Union. Until the demise of the Soviet Union, however, few details of Moscow's thinking on military matters were available. In this book, Andrei Kokoshin reveals how Soviet military theorists developed and debated the concepts that provided the basis for the Kremlin's defense policies. Drawing on Soviet-era archives and unpublished materials, he sheds light on this important chapter in the history of Russia and the world.The book covers three main themes: the relationship between politics and military strategy in the Soviet Union; how the Soviet political and military leadership assessed threats to Soviet security, the nature of future wars, and methods of warfare; and the relationship between offense and defense in Soviet military strategy. Kokoshin places the strategic concepts behind Moscow's military policies in the context of internal and international struggles for power, and assesses the future role of military power in Russia's national security strategy.
Author : Joseph D. Douglass
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1483155366
Soviet Military Strategy in Europe focuses on the development, form and content, implications for international relations, and goal of Soviet military plan in Europe. The book first discusses the foundation of Soviet military thought and revolution in Soviet military affairs, including basic concepts of the Marxist-Leninist ideology, Soviet study of military affairs, nuclear revolution, and scientific and technical revolution. The publication also concentrates on Soviet study of laws and principles of military art and forces and primary operational concepts. Topics include laws of the first order, naval and air operations, nuclear strike, and conventional war considerations. The manuscript ponders on command and control, as well as combat modeling, survivability, coordination, centralization, and attack of NATO command and control. The book also reviews the issues of Soviet military strategy toward Europe and special Soviet problems. Topics include role of nuclear weapons, chemical warfare options, escalation to intercontinental war, NATO nuclear threat, nuclear weapon stockpile, and superiority and war initiation. The publication is a dependable reference for readers interested in the Soviet military scheme in Europe.
Author : Raymond L. Garthoff
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
In this book, Soviet expert Raymond L. Garthoff makes use of unique, newly available material-- including a complete file of the confidential Soviet General Staff journal-- to illuminate the development of Soviet military thinking.
Author : Christoph Bluth
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : United States. Department of State. External Research Division
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : Oscar Jonsson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1626167346
This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. While other books describe current Russian practice, Oscar Jonsson provides the long view to show how Russian military strategic thinking has developed from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. He closely examines Russian primary sources including security doctrines and the writings and statements of Russian military theorists and political elites. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace. Jonsson also finds that Russian leaders have, particularly since 2011/12, considered themselves to be at war with the United States and its allies, albeit with non-violent means. This book provides much needed context and analysis to be able to understand recent Russian interventions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, how to deter Russia on the eastern borders of NATO, and how the West must also learn to avoid inadvertent escalation.
Author : Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Air warfare
ISBN :
This Note reviews Western research on Soviet military thought, with special emphasis on Soviet doctrine and its impact on Soviet force planning and behavior. It traces the evolution of the field since the 1950s; examines the ongoing debate over major issues regarding the Soviet military challenge; discusses problems of evidence and interpretation as they apply to Soviet military research; and suggests new directions for the field. It is the overall character of the Soviet threat, not Soviet doctrine in isolation, that inspires the most heated contention in the current national security debate. Although some of this contention revolves about legitimate differences over the meaning of ambiguous data, it stems for the most part from conflicting a priori assumptions about the Soviet Union. Key words include: Military strategy.