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...Soviet Union favors parity with the United States, but the nations' definitions differ. For Moscow, parity is not simply an equal level of forces but also an equal position in world affairs, including the license to meddle in Third World affairs as the Americans do. What emerges from Holloway's appraisal of Soviet policy is their determination to assert their status as a world power, which, despite Reagan's denials...
...primary goal of military preparations is to prevent world nuclear war," Holloway writes. "At the same time, however, a strong emphasis on the need to prepare to such a war has been a distinctive feature of Soviet military thinking in the nuclear age." In other words, though the Soviets agree that deterrence and mutual vulnerability are crucial for world stability, they do not actually rule out the possibility of a nuclear conflict; if it does occur, they are determined...
...good third of The Soviet Union and the Arms Race discusses the inner workings of the Soviet military industry. Holloway laboriously describes the defense bureaucracy and the apparatus of weapons production. The Soviet economy is geared to defense production--which absorbs the best minds, skills, and resources available--and hampered by it, as each year it gobbles roughly 12 percent of the Gross National Product. The chronic problem of the industry is its discouragement of innovation from below, which reflects the general rigidity of the economy. Holloway points out that Soviet research and development continually stresses evolutionary, rather than revolutionary...
...book's greatest weakness comes in its limited attention to the role of ideology in Soviet military policy--an issue which, though perhaps is outside the work's scope, is impossible to divorce from any discussion of nuclear arms. Holloway, like many American officials, seems undecided on how much of Soviet action derives from its stance as protector of the socialist faith and how much from its role as super-power. In the end, he attributes too much to Merlots-Leninist doctrine and not enough to sheer Machiavellian power...
Rejecting the traditional George Kennan have that Soviet expansion is the result of the regime's need to justify its rule, Holloway contends the Soviet union in the Third World are motivated by a conviction of capitalism and imperialism will inevitably colleges...