An Analysis of the Present Day Military Significance and Strategic Vulnerability of the Soviet Railway System in 1975.

Abstract

The author examines the present day relevance of the Soviet rail system to the logistic support of a major military operation, particularly a NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict. The great bulk of the material is extracted from Soviet sources. The author concludes that all rail transport still constitutes a vital portion of the Soviet military logistics system; and that, in spite of a continuing reliance on rail transport, long-standing deficiencies continue to exist which would hamper the use of the rail net in any future conflict.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA039630

Entities

People

  • Harry Franklin Ferguson

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Direct Current
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Europe
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Military Operations
  • Periodicals
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Rail Transportation
  • Resilience
  • Second World War
  • Transport Ships
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Strategic Security Studies