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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1984]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note On Soviet Sources
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Problems of U.S. Tactical Air Force Modernization
- Chapter II. Soviet Weapons Design and the Relative Nature of the "Gold-Plating" Problem
- Chapter III. Soviet Efficiency on the Ground
- Chapter IV. Soviet Effectiveness in the Air
- Chapter V. The Art of War and the Craft of Threat Assessment
- Chapter VI. Soviet Capabilities and Soviet Doctrine
- Appendices
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter.