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Measuring Military Power : The Soviet Air Threat to Europe /

Joshua M. Epstein argues that prevailing assumptions about the East- West balance of power rest on erroneous measures of military strength. He develops a method for analyzing military capabilities and applies that general procedure to the Soviet tactical air threat to NATO. Originally published in 1...

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Autor principal: Epstein, Joshua M., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1984]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Figures --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Note On Soviet Sources --  |t Preface --  |t Introduction --  |t Chapter I. Problems of U.S. Tactical Air Force Modernization --  |t Chapter II. Soviet Weapons Design and the Relative Nature of the "Gold-Plating" Problem --  |t Chapter III. Soviet Efficiency on the Ground --  |t Chapter IV. Soviet Effectiveness in the Air --  |t Chapter V. The Art of War and the Craft of Threat Assessment --  |t Chapter VI. Soviet Capabilities and Soviet Doctrine --  |t Appendices --  |t Selected Bibliography --  |t Index --  |t Backmatter. 
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