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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
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.