Leebaert Derek Edited (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Front cover has a small dent along the bottom edge and a scratch to the back cover. Pages are clean with no marks or page folds. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS8870 032020.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Editor Derek Leebaert, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University- 1981- George Allen & Unwin, London- HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD; light wear. DUST JACKET, GOOD+; light wear. RUSSIA, Armed Services, Government, Politics. SOVIET UNION, RUSSIA, RUSSIAN MILITARY, WAR, WARFARE, HISTORY, psychology. 300 pp. with Index. The Soviet Union remains a superpower with global security interests and ambitions. The doctrines, practices, and capabilities of its still formidable armed forces are shaping world politics just at the same time that the future of the country that created them is in doubt. This book examines the influences affecting Soviet military thinking planning and theory in the later Cold War. It offers for the first time an insight into the range of premises and calculations surrounding the Soviet conception of power, and makes the connection between Soviet studies and military strategy, a link often missed in the West. It discusses comparative doctrines, cultural differences, arms control and specific security challenges between East and West. The authors of this book- a group of leading analysts in the US national security community - confront the range of Soviet military strengths, including intercontinental nuclear power, conventional ground, and naval forces and special operations. They address questions of Soviet weapons research and development, military planning and policy making, and the role of civilian critics on Soviet military objectives. Other chapters explore the Red Army's erosion in Eastern Europe as well as the lessons of Afghanistan.