Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory - Softcover

Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. x, 218, [4] pages. Includes Map, Acknowledgments, Prologue, Author's note and Notes and References. Index. Contain chapters on The Soviet need to defeat NATO quickly, Attempts to win wars quickly, 1848-1914; Later attempts: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan; What is war, anyway; The new notion of victory; The first Soviet attempt at a speedy victory: the Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40; The reasons for all these failures; Possible recipes for success; Soviet practice, having absorbed these lessons: the Manchurian Campaign of 1945; The New ingredients: air mobile forces and rockets; The Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan; The Soviet view of surprise attack; But what does "surprise" consist of?; and A Possible Soviet scenario for the perfect Blitzkrieg; and Epilogue-- Key quotations from senior Soviet Officers. Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory is the first serious Western attempt to look at, evaluate, and understand Russian thinking on this crucial issue. Based almost entirely on Soviet sources, it deals realistically and knowledgeably with the evolution of their theories and with the practical uses to which they may be put. It is a book the West cannot afford to ignore. Vigor's scenario is based on the well-documented fact that Soviet generals were currently engaged in a major revision of their country's military doctrine.The emerging new strategy represented the most significant change in Soviet military thinking since the stat of the atomic age--Newsweek. First American Paperback Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Artikel-Nr. 82961

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