The Soviet Military and the Future

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What are the key factors that will shape the post-Soviet military system This text assesses the geo-strategic context in which leaders must operate, the nature of future war, foundations of military power, dilemmas confronting a multinational military force, problems in managing a nuclear arsenal, civil-military relations, economic priorities and problems and ethnic questioning. Also discussed are Soviet forecasting methodologies, naval developments, views about theatre warfare in Europe, developments in C31, the role of space, the Soviet military economy, mobilisation regimes, Soviet views on American military thought, perspectives on the initial period of warfare and changes in operational arts. This current evaluation of how war and the Soviet Union are being transformed has been designed for students and experts in military studies, political science and the social sciences generally.

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Some of these germs deserve to be studied at length.-Library Journal
"Some of these germs deserve to be studied at length."-Library Journal

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STEPHEN J. BLANK is Professor of Russian Studies at the U.S. Army War College. He is a specialist in Soviet Russian military affairs and Soviet Russian foreign policy. Blank is the author of Commissariat of Nationalities (1990). JACOB W. KIPP is Senior Analyst in the Soviet Army Studies Office at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He specializes in Soviet military affairs, the Soviet Navy, and the forecasting of future war.