Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHAT THE RUSSIAN GENERALS THINK...
...West's military leaders have long understood that their Soviet counterparts were thinking along lines quite different from postwar Western military thought. This difference was condescendingly put down to a time lag on the part of the Russians; they were believed frozen in the experience of World War II, unable to face the implications of the new nuclear weapons. This week, in a coldly penetrating study* of modern Soviet military doctrine, Russian-speaking Raymond L. Garthoff, 29, Defense Department analyst and specialist on Soviet military writings, enters a strong dissent. Since the death of Stalin in 1953, says...
...military purpose is to "deter and defeat attack." Russian military objectives are shaped by a fundamental objective: "To advance the power of the Soviet Union in whatever ways are most expedient so long as the survival of the Soviet power itself is not endangered...
...their conquest of all Eurasia would leave them at the end of the war in a position vis-à-vis the U.S. better than their present position. It is this vision not Nikita Khrushchev's present position. It is this vision that gives confidence to Russian spokesmen and drive to Russian diplomacy...
...flexibility of the Russian theory may be illustrated by this difference: many Western military men believe that nuclear weapons in the hands of the infantry reduce the need for manpower because they increase firepower per man. This belief leads toward nuclear-armed ground forces so small that they could fight only nuclear war. But Russian generals believe that nuclear infantry weapons increase the manpower requirements because more soldiers will be needed to replace the heavier casualties. This leaves the Russians with large numbers of soldiers who can fight either nuclear or non-nuclear...