Men & Technology in Today's Soviet Navy

Abstract

Demographic, economic, and ethnic problems have reduced the quality of Soviet Naval personnel. Frictions between Soviet Navy and defense industry have contributed to increasingly poor reliability of naval platforms and weapons. The logical solution is to reduce the size of the Soviet Navy. Mikhail Gorbachev has proclaimed a new military doctrine of reliance on high quality military manpower, military hardware and military science instead of their quantity. This doctrine is of great importance to the Soviet navy, which is experiencing serious problems with the quality of its men and hardware in the aftermath of the great quantitative (as well as qualitative) expansion of the 1960s-1980s.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA221072

Entities

People

  • Mikhail Tsypkin

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Governments
  • International Security
  • Military Doctrine
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Personnel
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Political Science
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Students
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design