Scientific-Technical Progress and the Revolution in Military Affairs
Scientific-Technical Progress and the Revolution in Military Affairs

Author: N. A. Lomov

Publisher:

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781410201492

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Scientific-Technical Progress and the Revolution in Military Affairs was translated and published under the auspices of the United States Air Force. The original Russian edition was published by the Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense in the USSR.The book is identified as describing the present stage (as of original publication in 1972) in the development of Soviet military theory and practice in relationship to scientific-industrial progress. It tells how the " achievements of science and technology, the invention and introduction of nuclear missile weapons and other modern means of armed combat have brought about a revolution in military affairs." The book analyzes the qualitative changes in weapons and the technical outfitting of the Soviet army and navy, in the organization of the armed forces, the forms and methods of combat, in troop control, the methods of training and indoctrinating troops, and " the dialectics of the relationships of man and technology in modern war."Scientific-Technical Progress and the Revolution in Military Affairs was written by a group of officers and generals who are recognized spokesmen of Soviet military affairs.

Information Dominance
Information Dominance

Author: Martin C. Libicki

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13:

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Information dominance may be defined as superiority in the generation, manipulation, and use of information sufficient to afford its possessors military dominance. It has three sources: Command and control that permits everyone to know where they (and their cohorts) are in the battlespace, and enables them to execute operations when and as quickly as necessary; Intelligence that ranges from knowing the enemy's dispositions to knowing the location of enemy assets in real-time with sufficient precision for a one-shot kill; information warfare that confounds enemy information systems at various points (sensors, communications, processing, and command), while protecting one's own. Technical means, nevertheless, are no substitute for information dominance at the strategic level: knowing oneself and one's enemy; and, at best, inducing them to see things as one does.

The Soviet View of U.S. Strategic Doctrine
The Soviet View of U.S. Strategic Doctrine

Author: Jonathan Samuel Lockwood

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781412834919

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Soviet perceptions of American strategic doctrine have influenced then-use of military power in foreign policy. An understanding of how those perceptions are being derived at and of their specific contents is therefore essential to any reflection on direction that American defense policy should take. Particularly in the field of arms control and disarmament, Soviet perceptions carry severe implications for U.S. proposals as well as general behavior. Lockwood bases his examination on Soviet sources such as newspapers, periodicals, radio broadcasts, and books. He establishes that Soviet analysts tend to project their own notions of clear strategy onto U.S. doctrine and intentions. Starting from the premise that the Soviets mean what they say Lockwood is able to give a historical account of Soviet perceptions starting from "massive retaliation" up to and including Presidential Directive 59. In his final chapter, the author gives possible policy strategies to successfully counteract the Soviet military policy.