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What are likely to be the uses to which the great military potential of the Soviet Union is put in the next decade? This is a matter of pure speculation. All that can reasonably be attempted is to define, as expert students of Soviet policy and military doctrine have done, the ideological and strategic principles and the Russian legacy which can be assumed to determine the actions of the CPSU, and so to judge what is improbable or probable.1
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Two particularly valuable guides are Peter Vigor’s The Soviet View of War, Peace and Neutrality (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975)
and John Erickson and E.J. Feuchtwanger (eds). Soviet Military Power and Performance (London: Macmillan, 1979).
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Critchley, J. (1982). Prospects of the projection of Soviet power. 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_9
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