Soviet Power: The Continuing Challenge

ISBN-13: 9781349120772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 283 str.

James Sherr

Opis

Representing the culmination of an RUSI main theme study, "Soviet Power and Prospects," this volume is based on the Institute's proposition that military power exerts a profound influence on the course of world politics and that such power cannot be divorced from its social and political context.

Spis treści

Part 1 The continuing challenge: first principles; foundations of power - resources empire; army and party, war and politics; the changing scope of military strategy; the invisibles of power. Part 2 Perceptions of Soviet power: perceptions of Soviet power and influence, H.Sonnenfeldt; Europe and the security of Russia, E.Moreton; the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Gulf in the Soviet perception, F.Halliday; power in the Kremlin - politics and the military, M.Mackintosh; Soviet maritime power, Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fieldhouse; morale, motivation and leadership in the Soviet armed forces, Commadore S.Williams.