Comparative Power Projectional Capabilities: The Soviet Union and the United States 1980-85.
Abstract
Great changes have taken place recently in the relative ability of the Soviet Union and the United States to project power in the world. This study centers on a discussion of world politics, emphasizing sources of instability on the world scene, and compares the U.S. and Soviet power projectional capabilities to influence change. The study suggests that seemingly disparate events in different theaters bear on each other, and their effects are cumulative. The strategy suggested by the study is based on this assumption. Any strategy that will enable us to cope with our declining options, so as to stop the 'downward slide to war' as Raymond Aron has termed the present movement in the Western position, must therefore derive from an understanding of the synergism characterizing the interaction of the disparate parts. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 26, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA102390
Entities
People
- W. Scott Thompson