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This is a CIA Office of Research and Reports contribution to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-64, dated 6 October 1964, on the capabilities of Soviet general-purpose forces from 1964 to 1970. It updates evidence on Soviet doctrine for theater warfare, the effect of low wartime birth rates on military conscription and the labor supply, tactical missile systems, the Soviet and Satellite tactical air forces, and Soviet naval submarine, surface and air forces. The report does not mention unidentified flying objects.
TOPSECRET trained men, who also are sorely needed in the civilian economy. The reductions in military manpower made in the 1950's were largely at the expense of infantry units. Cuts in the 1960's are likely to affect skilled manpower as well. Thus reductions in the military forces may be of even greater value to the labor force after 1963. The Soviet government has achieved about the maximum labor participation rate possible through present measures. Additional measures are likely to be of little assistance; future increases, therefore, will be only a function of population growth. Of more importance is the difficulty caused to industry by the present emphasis on agricultural production and the accompanying induce- ments provided agricultural labor. Soviet industry traditionally has tapped agriculture as a source of additional workers. This supply is being reduced at a time when military requirements for technically trained conscripts increasingly conflict with the interests of in- dustry. III. Tactical. Missile Systems Since the end of World War IT the USSR has developed, produced, and deployed a number of short-range ballistic and cruise guided mis- sile systems as well as free-rocket-over-ground (FROG) systems for the tactical support of ground force operations. The acquisition of nuclear weapons by the ground forces has been one of the major factors affecting the development of Soviet theater warfare capabilities over the past few years. Soviet military publications make it clear that nuclear - 13 - TOP CRET
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