Estimated Soviet Defense Spending, Trends and Prospects
Title | Estimated Soviet Defense Spending, Trends and Prospects PDF eBook |
Author | National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
Soviet Defense Spending
Title | Soviet Defense Spending PDF eBook |
Author | Noel E. Firth |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780890968055 |
During the Cold War, when the United States' intelligence efforts were focused on the Soviet Union, one of the primary tasks of the Central Intelligence Agency was to estimate Soviet defense spending. In Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990, Noel E. Firth and James H. Noren, who spent much of their long CIA careers estimating and studying Soviet defense spending, provide a closer look at those estimates and consider how and why they were made. In the process, the authors chronicle the development of a significant intelligence analytic capability. Firth and Noren also explain what the CIA has learned since the collapse of the Soviet Union about the USSR's actual military spending during the Cold War.
Sitting on Bayonets
Title | Sitting on Bayonets PDF eBook |
Author | Abraham Samuel Becker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Budget |
ISBN |
False Science
Title | False Science PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Rosefielde |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | 508 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781412823364 |
Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities
Title | Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities PDF eBook |
Author | Carmel Davis |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Total Pages | 129 |
Release | 2011-11-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0761855521 |
Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities assesses two mainstays of international relations, balance of power and balance of threat, using the case of US balancing against the Soviet Union in the later Cold War. It also proposes balance of military capabilities, which uses offense-defense theory to argue that countries balance against the ability of others to conquer or compel them. Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities finds that the US was more powerful than the Soviet Union so US behavior is not explained by balance of power. The US did not perceive the Soviet Union as likely to initiate war or to run risks that might lead to war so US behavior is not explained by balance of threat. This book determines that the US was concerned about its ability to defend Europe and the Persian Gulf so US behavior is explained by balance of military capabilities.
Allocation of Resources in the Soviet Union and China--1984
Title | Allocation of Resources in the Soviet Union and China--1984 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Allocation of Resources in the Soviet Union and China
Title | Allocation of Resources in the Soviet Union and China PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | China |
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