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...according to former CIA officer Raymond L. Garthoff, who himself wrote some of the newly available estimates, "these [documents released today] were considered on the whole to be more sensitive...
...flexibility of the new American method of warfare, the doctrine called AirLand Battle, which combines air, ground and naval forces into one integrated onslaught. "They can't help being as impressed by the U.S. performance as they are depressed about what it means to their forces," says Raymond Garthoff of the Brookings Institution in Washington...
...nuclear war could be won, it would probably be won by the nation that struck first, by surprise. No top U.S. official would say that Moscow might be designing its strategy based on such a preemptive strike, but some think-tank strategists are less reticent. Says Raymond Garthoff of the Brookings Institution: "If war came, they would probably launch an all-out attack on the U.S. They might go first, with everything...
...Raymond Garthoff, a leading expert on Soviet military strategy who is now at the Brookings Institution, believes that the Soviets would consider trying to get the drop on the U.S. with nuclear weapons only if they were convinced that the U.S. was about to reach for its own holster: "If they really concluded that the U.S. had decided to attack them, they would preempt. This would be in a situation of crisis and high alert...
...doctrine warns that the imperialists are plotting to unleash a nuclear war and stresses that the Russians must be ready to deliver "a timely rebuff to the aggressors." Despite this purposely vague formula, the Russians reject the idea of starting an unprovoked nuclear war themselves. As Sovietologist Raymond L. Garthoff, now an adviser to the U.S. delegation at SALT, pointed out in his 1966 book, Soviet Military Policy: "Communist doctrine does inject unusually strong hostility and suspicion into Soviet policymaking, but Marxism-Leninism does not propel the Soviet Union blindly toward war or the witting assumption of great risks." Communist...