Documents / FOIA release
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.
-23.- cr D / MUFF SH, 1:7' the number of its documents. Even now wire telegraphy and telephone communications should be added to obsolescent means of control as they will not be able to keep pace with the operating tempo of troops. Apparently even such an attribute of control as the preparation of large unit and army ccomand poets with all types of shelters (dugouts), by the forces and equipment of engineer troops, Is beccadng obsolete. The rapid tempos of battles and operations require highly mobile ccemand points using available places of cover (cellars, buildings, tunnels, quarries, etc.). The recording of meteorological conditions and their prediction become a very , ispcsiant factor in operational planning and in daily =arca. In this connection, the creation of special meteorological units in all staffs from division to tract is absolutely essential. ktU automatic systems permitting rapid and accurate determi- nation of coordinates for missile launchers are worked out, it is essential to have in the staffs of armies and fronts a separate topogeodetic service with subordinate special its to support miss tie units and large units. *5* In this article we have only tcuched upon sass of the most . topical questions of military art. In connection with the development of nuclear/missile weapons, the total weber of postulates In need of reriev is undoubtedly much greater. Hoy of the question* touched upon by us are set forth only by 'sr of posing them and bringing them to the attention of nilitarritheoreticalthonght.Therefore the judgements of the author cannot lay CUL* to exhaustive completeness or infallibility.
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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.