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Author Zisk, Kimberly Marten

Title Engaging the Enemy : Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (297 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-ranki
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Subject Military doctrine -- Soviet Union
Military doctrine
Soviet Union
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400820931
1400820936
9781400808977
1400808979