Measuring Military Power : : The Soviet Air Threat to Europe / / Joshua M. Epstein.

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 19...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 199
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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