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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.
1110 SE RE7' VGK missile troops completely chnoge the mature of opera ground troops, the navy, and aviation. It woult be naive to think that the enemy will be incapable of delivering similar powerful nuclear strikes spinet the territory of countries of the Socialist Camp and first and Ifort against the territory of the Soriet Unica. liut such strikes will not be ab.le to knock these countries out of the wr. The superiority of the socialist structure with its econamic potentialities and politiosl thity of peoples . will enable countries or the Socialist dap to withstand the first nuclear strikes of the enemy. This is further favored by the enormous territory, the insilseustible Unman resources, and a relatively great dispersics of inthistrial and administrative captors. The laperielist bloc does act lave each possibilities. ree this reason, in panarrag the country for the possible launchine of ear by aggressors, es mat first of all utilise the advantages of our socialist system so as not to give the enemy the possibility at recovering after our retaliatory nuclear strike. Of course es at take into account the coosepences or the first powerful enemy nuclear strikes. As it appears to us, they will nuke themselves felt, fL.st of all, by the fact that in the first operatics of the initial period of the ear, a substantial rein- forcement or troops in theaters of military operetioos cannot be especied by bringing vp forces and spetymmrt from the depth of the country. • elder those condition, it appears absolutely necessary to us to review seriouely certain tenets of am sanitary etrategy ceasing the length of a contemporary war end the member of armed forces participetiag in it. The couple of the capitalist canstries ammThilated in the first days of the ear will hardly evoke enthusiess in the rtemiming countries for its prolceiptice. Ws Nast take into account the amormona morel shock to peoples, not to speak or the huge nsterlel losses end the boom victims. Xt la sufficient to sayers figures at hymen losses in precious ware with expected losses during the course of the "%rot days or even the first beers of • contemporary ear for the pleture to became claw. The losses at 33 earring canaries dogleg the tour peers or ikeld ilsr I totaled 10 malice persons killed and 311 Billie persons
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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.