Soviet Strategic Thought, 1917-1991 Book

	About the Author
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Relationship between Policy and Strategy in Soviet Military Doctrine	11
	Revolutionary Military Councils and Political Commissars	12
	The Supremacy of Policy over Strategy	19
	The Evolution of a "Unified Military Doctrine"	26
	The Concept of the "Integral Military Leader"	38
	The Purges of 1937-38 and the New Generation of Soviet Military Leaders	40
	The "Genius of Stalin" and the Soviet Art of War	44
	Politics and Military Leaders in the Khrushchev Era	46
	Nuclear Weapons and the Relationship between Policy and Strategy	53
	Policy and Strategy in the 1980s	55
	Modification of Clausewitz's Formula in the Late 1980s	58
Ch. 2	Threats to Soviet Security and the Probability of a Future War	63
	Revolutionary Wars and National Wars	65
	Maneuverability in a Future War	74
	The Role of the Navy in a Future War	77
	The Political-Military Situation in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s	80
	The Theory of the Initial Phase of War	86
	The Political-Military Situation in the Nazi Era	89
	Approaches to the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45	98
	Threats to Soviet Security in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s	111
	Political-Military Conditions in the Second Half of the 1950s	116
	The Initial Phase of War and Fighting a Surprise Attack	122
	Local and Limited Wars	124
	The Political-Military Situation during the Era of Detente and Stagnation	126
	The New Role of the Soviet Navy	129
	Continuity and Revolution in the 1980s	132
Ch. 3	Offense and Defense in Soviet Military Strategy	147
	Debates on Offense and Defense in the 1920s	147
	The General Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, 1932-34	157
	The Soviet Theory of "Deep Battle" or "Deep Operations"	160
	The Offense in Stalin's Naval Strategy	164
	Pre-war Soviet Concepts of Initial Strategic Operations	165
	Issues of Offense and Defense Immediately after the War	169
	The Enhanced Role of Offensive Operations in the 1960s	172
	Dialectics of Defense and Offense in the Nuclear Sphere	175
	The Development of the "Deep Battle" Theory in the 1970s	177
	Offense and Defense in Soviet Military Strategy in the Early 1980s	180
	"Defense Sufficiency" and the New Relationships between Offense and Defense	184
Ch. 4	In Lieu of a Conclusion: Russia's National Security and Military Power	193
	Present-Day Dimensions of the National Security Problem	194
	Building National Egoism	200
	The New Armed Forces for Russia	205
	Index	211
	About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs	226