| Soviet Military Doctrine and Western Policy Subjects: Politics & International Relations; Military & Strategic Studies; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Military Studies; Security Studies - Military & Strategic; Strategic Studies; Peace Studies; War & Conflict Studies; This book, first published in 1989, analyses Western and Soviet perceptions of each other's military thoughts and doctrines, a key part of the Cold War, where both sides planned to both win a possible conflict, and to avoid one. The work demonstrates that both East and West made judgments about each other's military profile on the basis of political preconceptions. Gregory Flynn |