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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated December 1961, sends a verbatim translation of a Soviet article from the TOP SECRET version of the journal Military Thought. The article, "The Theory of Military Art Needs Review" by Colonel-General A. Gastilovich, appeared in the first 1960 issue. It argues that nuclear missiles call for short "blitz" wars, smaller ground forces and missile troops as the main arm. It has no UFO content.
• .•••-•-• 411111 szsLE_ be missile strikes in embarkation end debarkation 'roast while enroute at sea, it is again more expedient to annihilate landing forces by strikes with missiles belting nuclsar chars.' of several megatons. After the discovers of the landiag forces at sea, those attacks can be calculated on the basis of their passage of a definite point (area). Certain Questions of the Develoyeent and Ordenimatice of the Types of Armed ?areas She changing of certain strategic and operational points of view is unevoliably bound up in the review of the programs for development end orginisation of the different types of armed forces. This development must, first of all, evolve only !ninths weds of the initial period of the var since a lea& drawn-out =clear/Missile struggle is impossible; secondly,, it must Arrelopurder the banner of the indubitable priority of nuclear/missile troops. In this respect it is expedient to develop primarily missile troops of the V016 capable *Claming missiles of megeton yields. Missi* . troope of all types operational, and tactical must develop in the directions ofi - increasing their firing rate (skaroetrelnost); in this respect the introduction of 2°11421=11e fuels has decisive significance; missiles must be ma gg ready projectiles, fully assembled and requiring only the establishment of the flight PiteXas; - perfection and autometion of the process of tying in the ie.:aching mounts (carriers) to the terrain; - perfection of missile guidance systems, not subject to jamming; - perfection of missile lusters capable of changing the launch area quickly; in this respect an important role sust be played principally by "air-surface" type missiles on seaplanes (sidrosamolat), missile-carrying submarines, end missile trains (mead) (for atretedio sdssiles); - perfection of the system of centralised. COMMIS& of leunchieg missiles from widely separated commmaipcdate. It must be acknowledged directly that in their present state, missiles of tactical and operatiorml designation are still not suf- ficiently suitable for the missions assigned to them because of their
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.