Soviet Strategic Thought 1917 91

Author : Andrei A. Kokoshin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0262611384

Get Book

Soviet Strategic Thought, 1917-91 by Andrei A. Kokoshin Pdf

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 Drawing on Soviet-era archives and unpublished materials, he sheds light on this important chapter in the history of Russia and the world.The book covers three main themes: the relationship between politics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 : Derek Leebaert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000264821

Get Book

Soviet Military Thinking by Derek Leebaert Pdf

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 : Derek Leebaert,Timothy Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0521407699

Get Book

Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking by Derek Leebaert,Timothy Dickinson Pdf

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 : Thomas W. Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105083039060

Get Book

Soviet Strategic Thought in Transition by Thomas W. Wolfe Pdf

Topics include: underlying problems; character of the military debate; and current Soviet views on specific issues (nature of a future war, likelihood of war, short or long war, size of the armed forces, offense versus defense concepts, military superiority, war-winning strategy, limited war and national liberation struggles, war as an instrument of policy).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : IND:30000113907533

Get Book

Military Thought by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew S. Erickson,Lyle J Goldstein,Carnes Lord
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511528

Get Book

China Goes to Sea by Andrew S. Erickson,Lyle J Goldstein,Carnes Lord Pdf

In modern history, China has been primarily a land power, dominating smaller states along its massive continental flanks. But China’s turn toward the sea is now very much a reality, as evident in its stunning rise in global shipbuilding markets, its vast and expanding merchant marine, the wide offshore reach of its energy and minerals exploration companies, its growing fishing fleet, and indeed its increasingly modern navy. Yet, for all these achievements, there is still profound skepticism regarding China’s potential as a genuine maritime power. Beijing must still import the most vital subcomponents for its shipyards, maritime governance remains severely bureaucratically challenged, and the navy evinces, at least as of yet, little enthusiasm for significant blue water power projection capabilities. This volume provides a truly comprehensive assessment of prospects for China’s maritime development by situating these important geostrategic phenomena within a larger world historical context. China is hardly the only land power in history to attempt transformation by fostering sea power. Many continental powers have elected or been impelled to transform themselves into significant maritime powers in order to safeguard their strategic position or advance their interests. We examine cases of attempted transformation from the Persian Empire to the Soviet Union, and determine the reasons for their success or failure. Too many works on China view the nation in isolation. Of course, China’s history and culture are to some extent exceptional, but building intellectual fences actually hinders the effort to understand China’s current development trajectory. Without underestimating the enduring pull of China’s past as it relates to threats to the country’s internal stability and its landward borders, this comparative study provides reason to believe that China has turned the corner on a genuine maritime transformation. If that proves indeed to be the case, it would be a remarkable if not singular event in the history of the last two millennia.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Strategy
ISBN : UCR:31210014634792

Get Book

Weapons for Strategic Effect by Colin S. Gray Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780870032806

Get Book

Russian civil-military relations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Milan Vego
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351047708

Get Book

Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial by Milan Vego Pdf

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea; and the conceptual framework of disputing control of the sea. It also explains and analyzes in some detail the main methods of disputing sea control – avoiding/seeking decisive encounters, weakening enemy naval forces over time, counter-containment of enemy naval forces, destroying the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea, attacks on the enemy coast, defense of the coast, defense/capturing important positions/basing areas, and defense/capturing of a choke point. A majority of the world’s navies are currently of small or medium-size. In the case of a war with a much stronger opponent, they would be strategically on the defensive, and their main objective then would be to dispute control of the sea by a stronger side at sea. This book provides a practical guide to such a strategy. This book would be of much interest to students of naval power, maritime security, strategic studies and military/naval history.

Author : Mark Wilcox
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111332031

Get Book

The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe by Mark Wilcox Pdf

This work examines the CFE Treaty as a factor in Russia’s foreign and security policy. Moscow showed amazing persistence in their relationship with the "cornerstone of European security." Their approach to the treaty was a genuine attempt to shape the security environment in Europe and the former USSR. The treaty also enabled the dismantling of large conventional forces as they returned from Eastern Europe and transitioned into the armies of the newly independent states of the former USSR. The CFE Treaty, though, proved ineffective at constraining the enlargement of NATO. Simultaneously, Moscow’s foreign and security policy evolved from one that focused on the domestic development of the country to that of a more confident state reasserting itself as a great power. Drawing extensively on primary sources and analyses by Russian authors, this book employs two historical narratives, case studies, and a conceptual framework to show that while Moscow remained engaged with the CFE Treaty, undesired effects on Russia’s national interests gradually accrued at the expense of desired ones, leading Vladimir Putin to withdraw Russia from the treaty as an act of de-coupling from the "collective West." This book is relevant to scholars and policymakers who want to understand Russia’s approach to arms control as an element of military security.

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala,Peter Rainow
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574888133

Get Book

Russia and Postmodern Deterrence by Stephen J. Cimbala,Peter Rainow Pdf

Russia grapples with the radical post-Cold War world order

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313003677

Get Book

Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty-First Century by Stephen J. Cimbala Pdf

The future of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy in the 21st century is not entirely predictable from the Cold War past. Nor is it easy to foresee on the basis of what has happened since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Cimbala contends that nuclear weapons and the psychology of nuclear deterrence will remain important after 2000, but the character of that importance will change. No longer will nuclear weapons be the dominators of military technology. Instead, advanced technology conventional weapons, based on information and electronics, will supplant nuclear weapons as the instruments of military supremacy in the 21st century. What, Cimbala asks, can be expected of nuclear weapons in the 21st century, given what we have learned from previous experience in the Cold War and in the 1990s? Cimbala expects that nuclear weapons will spread among currently non-nuclear states, and states with regional grievances or hegemonic aspirations will seek to deploy small nuclear forces as deterrents against neighbors or against outside intervention by the United States in regional conflicts. Regional rogue states may also obtain nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, as Cimbala explains, the international balance of power is unlikely to change. As he makes clear, power will be less dependent on deployed military platforms and more dependent on information warfare. A thoughtful and provocative analysis that will be of particular interest to policy makers, scholars, and other researchers involved with arms control, security studies, and international relations.

Author : Albert L. Weeks
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739189702

Get Book

Myths of the Cold War by Albert L. Weeks Pdf

Myths of the Cold War: Amending Historiographic Distortions provides a corrective for the distortions and omissions of many previous domestic and foreign (including Russian) studies of the Cold War, especially those published since 2000. The “present interest” motivation in Weeks's analysis is gaining a clear understanding of the bi-polar, $4 trillion, nuclear-war-threatening standoff that lasted over 40 years after World War II until the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Without such knowledge and understanding of this dangerous conflict, any future encounter of the cold-war type with another nation-state is liable to be construed in confusing ways just as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War was. The consequence of such misunderstanding in the historiographic sense as well as in policy-making at the highest level is that the populations of the contending powers will have distorted conceptions of the reasons for the confrontation. The result of this, in turn, is skewed tendentiousness that masks concrete, underlying causes of intense inter-state contention. Practical benefits thus flow from an unprejudiced analysis of the past Cold War with Communist Russia. This understanding can help prevent a future conflict, such as one with Communist China, which some reputed sinologists are currently predicting, as well as one with post-Soviet Russia. Conversely, if a new cold war is imposed on the West, a clearer understanding of the post-World War II archetypical Cold War will be edifying.

Author : Colin Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135754754

Get Book

Strategy for Chaos by Colin Gray Pdf

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'. The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must "work" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major school of thought allowed its day in court. The author presents three historical RMAs as case studies for his argument: those arguably revealed in the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon; in World War I; and in the nuclear age. The focus of his analysis is how these grand RMAs functioned strategically. The conclusions that he draws from these empirical exercises are then applied to help us understand what, indeed, is - and what is not - happening with the much vaunted information-technology-led RMA of today.

Author : Oscar Jonsson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626167346

Get Book

The Russian Understanding of War by Oscar Jonsson Pdf

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.