[PDF] The Soviet View Of Us Strategic Doctrine eBook

Author : Jonathan Samuel Lockwood
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412834919

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Soviet perceptions of American strategic doctrine have influenced then-use of military power in foreign policy. An understanding of how those perceptions are being derived at and of their specific contents is therefore essential to any reflection on direction that American defense policy should take. Particularly in the field of arms control and disarmament, Soviet perceptions carry severe implications for U.S. proposals as well as general behavior. Lockwood bases his examination on Soviet sources such as newspapers, periodicals, radio broadcasts, and books. He establishes that Soviet analysts tend to project their own notions of clear strategy onto U.S. doctrine and intentions. Starting from the premise that the Soviets mean what they say Lockwood is able to give a historical account of Soviet perceptions starting from "massive retaliation" up to and including Presidential Directive 59. In his final chapter, the author gives possible policy strategies to successfully counteract the Soviet military policy.

Author : Jonathan Samuel Lockwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1351474723

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Soviet perceptions of U.S. strategy remained remarkably consistent from the post-Stalin period through the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself. The consistency of the Soviet tendency to engage in the 'mirror-image' fallacy in their analyses of U.S. doctrine and strategic intentions has profound implications for the future relationship of the U.S. and the now-independent republics. This authoritative volume analyzes the Soviet/Russian perspectives of U.S. strategic evolution from the declaration of the 'massive retaliation' doctrine of 1954 through the Soviet collapse of 1991.The Soviets considered the growth of their strategic nuclear arsenal as the main factor giving them political leverage over U.S. foreign policy and predicted that a defense policy based on strategic defense would be the most effective deterrent from a Soviet perspective. Now the Russian military and political leadership places a high value on strategic nuclear forces in terms of political leverage and prestige.Building upon a wide variety of international sources, the Lockwoods offer a penetrating assessment of how the present Russian perspective will affect political relationships, not only with the U.S. and the West, but also among the independent republics. This factor will become ever more critical as they vie for decentralized versus unified control of what was the Soviet nuclear arsenal under the shadow of the collapsing economies. The authors also introduce a new theory concerning the future impact of ballistic missile defense on operational warfare in light of the U.S. experience in Operation Desert Storm. The Russian View of U.S. Strategy provides a comprehensive historical context and an up-to-date appraisal of an uncertain and potentially volatile development in U.S.-Russian relations. It will be of interest to historians, policymakers, and military analysts.

Author : Gregory Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1000263665

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This book, first published in 1989, analyses Western and Soviet perceptions of each other’s military thoughts and doctrines, a key part of the Cold War, where both sides planned to both win a possible conflict, and to avoid one. The work demonstrates that both East and West made judgments about each other’s military profile on the basis of political preconceptions.

Author : Vasiliĭ Danilovich Sokolovskiĭ
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Strategy
ISBN :

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Militærhistorie, strategi, taktik - den sovjetrussiske marskal Solokovski's berømte værk om militærstrategi oversat fra russisk. Skrevet af en række topmilitærfolk i USSR under ledelse af marskal Solokovsky og er det første værk om marxistisk, leninistisk, kommunistisk, sovjetrussisk militærstrategi som blev tilgængeligt i den vestlige verden.

Author : John Baylis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1000264807

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This book, first published in 1981, is an analysis of the Soviet Union’s military strategy, taking in both sides of the ‘hawks’ and ‘doves’ views of the USSR’s intentions. It examines the Soviet approach to nuclear war, defence and deterrence in the nuclear age and the calculation of risk in the use of the military instrument. One of the main themes running through the chapters is that although the Soviet Union clearly does not view military issues in the same way as does the West, their approach is not necessarily aggressive and dangerous in all respects.

Author : Carl G. Jacobsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 1990-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349205745

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This book highlights the impact and relevance of "strategic culture". Each section contains essays contrasting United States and Soviet perceptions on specific topics. Each section closes with a synthesizing commentary, to help readers to get a better sense of differences and similarities.

Author : Raymond L. Garthoff
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :

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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.