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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.

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“The Advance”5 pages

  • p. 15 …Doreover, the inclinational each advancing large unit to lend assistance to its neighbor, to Wheel rapidly…
  • p. 16 …or positions with the aim of slowing the tempo of the enes7 advance along axes 'which…
  • p. 17 …Slowirmithe to of the advancing mairby mass at defense is based on cannterattacks and counterstrikes carried…
  • p. 21 …advancing reserves of the enemy. In this connection, however, it is inadvisable to distribute the WO…
  • p. 27 …arid terrain slowing the enemy advance. Defense in the flea analysis is decided by the maneuver…
15 December 1961
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Army - Copies #13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18
,Navy - Copy #19
NSA - Copy #20
State - Copies #21 and 22
AEC — Copy #23
GMAIC - Copy #24
DDI - Copy #25
AD/NE - Copy #26
AD/CI - Copy #27
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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.