Soviet power: The continuing challenge.

Sherr, James

ISBN 10: 0333407822 / ISBN 13: 9780333407820

Published by Macmillan Press, London, 1987

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RUSI (Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies), 280 (+6 blank) pages including a bibliography and an index. Chapters include 'Foundations of Power', 'The Changing Scope of Military Strategy', 'Perceptions of Soviet Power and Influence', 'The Middle East, Afghanistan and the Gulf.' and 'The Soviet Navy in Transition'. "It cannot escape notice that the growth of Soviet military stength from the mid-1960's, and of the military instrument in Soviet policy, has coincided with declining economic performance, a loss of vitality, and a tarnishing of the Soviet image in other ways which diminish that counties respect and appeal." A Brand new book with booktraders shelfwear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Soviet power: The continuing challenge.
• Publisher: Macmillan Press, London
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333407822
• ISBN 13: 9780333407820
• Binding: Hard Cover, Dustjacket
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Institute which launched this study is committed to two propositions: that military exerts a profound influence on the course and pattern of world politics; and that to be properly understood - or effectively employed - military power cannot be divorced from the social and political context in which it operates. This volume represents the culmination of an RUSI Main Theme study; "Soviet Power and Prospects". Out of an assortment of lectures that structured the Institute's work, the small number presented in Part 2 have been chosen with an eye to gaps in the author's presentation and to approaches which contrast with the author's.