The main theme of Soviet propaganda regarding the concept of "escalation" was that the United States was planning to unleash a total nuclear war by means of escalation of local conflicts up the 44 rungs of Herman Kahn's escalation ...
Concentrating on the period between 1945 and 1989, The Elusive Balance reevaluates Soviet and U.S. perceptions of the balance of power.
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.
Leonard Leshuk begins this study by commenting on the unusual situation whereby a nation as seemingly weak and backward before World War II as the Soviet Union could, in the space of a few years, challenge the USA militarily on a global ...
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Robert Legvold, “The Concept of Power and Security in Soviet History', in Christoph Bertram (ed.) ... Stephen S. Kaplan et al, Diplomacy of Power: Soviet Armed Forces as a Political Instrument (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, ...
The main theme of Soviet propaganda regarding the concept of “escalation” was that the United States was planning to unleash a total nuclear war by means of escalation of local conflicts up the 44 rungs of Herman Kahn's escalation ...
Scott, Harriet Fast and William F. The Armed Forces of the USSR, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1979. Shaw, Jennifer etal., eds, Nuclear Attack: Civil Defence: ... Thompson, W. Scott. Power Projection: A Net Assessment of U.S. and Soviet ...
... Strategic Studies . pp . 22-29 . Lambeth , Benjamin S. ( 1979 ) : " The Political Potential of Soviet Equivalence " . In : International Security , Vol . 4 , No. 2 ( Fall ) . pp . 22-39 . -- ( 1980 ) : " Soviet Strategic Conduct and the ...
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