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The purpose of this book is to trace the probable course in the next ten years of the trial of strength, which has already lasted for more than decades, between the Soviet Union, on the one hand, and the United States and its allies, on the other. It makes no prophecy. Quite unforeseen events may undo the most confident forecasts, as did the Iranian Revolution and the eruption of Islamic fervour in 1979. But it will suggest the probable evolution of the policies and armaments of both sides, in the light of available information, and examine the consequences of the present correlation of power in the world.
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© 1982 Julian Critchley
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Critchley, J. (1982). The trial of strength. In: The North Atlantic Alliance and the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05616-3_1
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