Soviet Military thought - Concepts of War

Abstract

Many Americans, including national policymakers and military officers, undoubtedly 'mirror image' Western perspectives of the world onto their Soviet counterparts. In the military command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) area this misguided can lead to incorrect analysis and gross miscalculation of enemy capabilities and intentions. This thesis is an attempt to sensitize the American military officer to a sampling of those cultural and ideological assymetries that can make Soviet approaches to war and C3I decision making radically different from our own. Special emphasis is given to Soviet Marxist-Leninist views on peace, war, and military doctrine and science. Keywords: Soviet military thought, Soviet concepts of war, Soviet military thinking, Soviet war, Soviet military doctrine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA166980

Entities

People

  • Robert E. Orcutt Jr

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Civil War
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Geography
  • Human Behavior
  • Military Doctrine
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Psychology
  • Second World War
  • Sociopolitics
  • Treaties
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control