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In its endeavour to win influence in the periphery, the Soviet polity has tended to shift emphasis over the years, according to circumstances. Around 1970, at the latest, it seems to have been realised that military assistance can be a low-cost vehicle for projecting Soviet interests in the world. Apart from the geopolitics involved, this form of relations has the advantage of being well suited to the industrial capacity of the Soviet Union.
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The analogy is tempting: ‘The islands of the West Indies and the Central American Republics are so often the scenes of revolutions, many of which lose their threatening aspects soon after the mere arrival of a cruiser flying our flag though sometimes it is necessary to send a landing force ashore’ (US Office of Naval Intelligence, The United States Navy as an Industrial Asset, Washington, 1924; in Cox, 1964, p.179).
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Brun, E., Hersh, J. (1990). Arms Trade and Military Aid. In: Soviet-Third World Relations in a Capitalist World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11383-5_8
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