Accession Number:

ADA056215

Title:

Soviet Strategic Doctrine: Toward an Effective Military Posture.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

ARMY MILITARY PERSONNEL CENTER ALEXANDRIA VA

Personal Author(s):

• Scianna,Philip P.

Report Date:

1978-06-26

Pagination or Media Count:

146.0

Abstract:

The thesis of this work is that Soviet strategic doctrine, as it was transformed during the Brezhnev regime, has brought about a military posture which provides not only a credible deterrent value, but also an effective defensive value. It attempts to strike a balance between deterrence and actual war performance value without an overreliance on one or the other. The former supports the foreign policy of peaceful coexistence, while the latter, in conjunction with peaceful coexistence, provides for the security of national interests. Soviet strategic doctrine gives the Soviet Union the capability to respond to various levels of threats, while maintaining its self-proclaimed roles as the pillar of world peace and the leader of the world socialist revolutionary movement. It is based on the image and conduct of future war and the threat this poses to Soviet national security it is not based on the political utility of war, or the initiation of war as an instrument of policy. Author

Descriptors:

• *FOREIGN POLICY
• *USSR
• *MILITARY STRATEGY
• NATIONAL SECURITY
• INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
• STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
• MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• MOBILIZATION
• MILITARY DOCTRINE
• THESES
• DEFENSE PLANNING
• NATIONAL DEFENSE
• BALANCE OF POWER
• DETENTE
• EAST WEST RELATIONS

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE