Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy

By Michael K. McCgwire and Michael Kane McCgwire

Book Overview

This study concentrates on the military roots of Soviet policy. It concentrates on how planning for the contingency of a world war shapes and distorts Soviet policy while producing a military posture and structure of forces that appear to the West as being far in excess of any legitimate defense needs. The focus is on the military-technical aspects of doctrine, which is the responsibility of the military to implement. The study does not dwell on the decisions that the Soviet political leaders would face in the course of a war except to note how the hierarchy of objectives would influence those decisions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081575552X
• ISBN13: 9780815755524
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"