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Soviet approaches To Limited War and Theater Warfare

Soviet approaches To Limited War and Theater Warfare CHRISTIAN HACKE (Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany) WOLFGANG PFEILER (Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany) SO VIE T APPROACHES TO LIMITED WAR AND THEATER WARFARE The Problems . There has been an extended discussion among politicians and scientists in the West about whether the Soviet Union subscribes to the notion of a limited warfare such as theater warfare or theater nuclear warfare. As military doctrine becomes more complex and more sophisticated, the question be- comes most important. Western military doctrine has seemed to work on the presumption that the Soviets shared a similar conception. This was particular- ly true of James Schlesinger's concept of limited strategic options, which was based on the assumption that Soviet and American considerations followed a parallel track of rationality. On the one hand, there are Western analysts who maintain that Soviet leaders continue to believe in the inevitability of escalation to nuclear use in any European war. There seems to be considerable evidence for this, pre- dominantly from Soviet military sources, and the development of Soviet capabilities seems to provide the required capacities. These authurs emphasize the combined arms approach and the Soviet strategy of victory. This view maintains that there is no Soviet http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1983 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1075-1262
eISSN
1876-3324
DOI
10.1163/187633283X00126
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Abstract

CHRISTIAN HACKE (Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany) WOLFGANG PFEILER (Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany) SO VIE T APPROACHES TO LIMITED WAR AND THEATER WARFARE The Problems . There has been an extended discussion among politicians and scientists in the West about whether the Soviet Union subscribes to the notion of a limited warfare such as theater warfare or theater nuclear warfare. As military doctrine becomes more complex and more sophisticated, the question be- comes most important. Western military doctrine has seemed to work on the presumption that the Soviets shared a similar conception. This was particular- ly true of James Schlesinger's concept of limited strategic options, which was based on the assumption that Soviet and American considerations followed a parallel track of rationality. On the one hand, there are Western analysts who maintain that Soviet leaders continue to believe in the inevitability of escalation to nuclear use in any European war. There seems to be considerable evidence for this, pre- dominantly from Soviet military sources, and the development of Soviet capabilities seems to provide the required capacities. These authurs emphasize the combined arms approach and the Soviet strategy of victory. This view maintains that there is no Soviet

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The Soviet and Post Soviet ReviewBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1983

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