The North Atlantic Alliance and the Soviet Union in the 1980s [electronic resource

Front Matter....Pages i-vi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The trial of strength....Pages 3-12 Some illusions to be dissipated....Pages 13-24 The strategic situation transformed....Pages 25-34 The myth of the Tropic of Cancer....Pages 35-40 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 Strategy of the Communist Party....Pages 43-54 Some internal characteristics and problems....Pages 55-67 The military organisation of the Soviet Union....Pages 68-78 Soviet armaments: present strength....Pages 79-89 Prospects of the projection of Soviet power....Pages 90-100 Propaganda as an instrument of policy....Pages 101-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 The problem of unity amid diversity....Pages 115-126 Nuclear arms and policies....Pages 127-136 The Northern theatre of operations....Pages 137-145 The Central Front....Pages 146-159 The Southern theatre of operations....Pages 160-171 Naval tasks within and beyond the Treaty Area....Pages 172-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Some aspects of the defence of the United Kingdom....Pages 187-197 Back Matter....Pages 198-210