Theater-Strategic Operations: Evolving Soviet Assessments

Abstract

Soviet military planners continue to critically examine and reassess the USSR's approach to conducting large-scale strategic combined arms operations. Criteria for defining and categorizing theater-strategic operations, the relationship of offense and defense, and the optimum means of achieving strategic objectives with conventional theater forces are integral to this process. The author evaluates recent Soviet developments in this regard and points to a Soviet recognition that combined arms military forces and operations of reduced size can achieve objectives of strategic significance. Reprints.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA216426

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  • Graham H. Turbiville Jr.

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