| Description |
1 online resource (x, 286 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents |
| Summary |
Did a ""doctrine race"" exist alongside the much-publicized arms competition between East and West? Using recent insights from organization theory, Kimberly Marten Zisk answers this question in the affirmative. Zisk challenges the standard portrayal of Soviet military officers as bureaucratic actors wedded to the status quo: she maintains that when they were confronted by a changing external security environment, they reacted by producing innovative doctrine. The author's extensive evidence is drawn from newly declassified Soviet military journals, and from her interviews with retired high- |
| Analysis |
Defence (Military strategy) |
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Military doctrine -- Soviet Union
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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Military doctrine
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Soviet Union
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1400813980 |
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9781400813988 |
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9780691069821 |
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0691069824 |
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1282751719 |
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9781282751712 |
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9786612751714 |
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6612751711 |
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1400820936 |
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9781400820931 |
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1400808979 |
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9781400808977 |
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