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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.
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TQOsSECRET the strategic forces at the expense of the traditional arms -- have encountered persistent opposition from the military leadership. Public contention has arisen over questions of the allocation of resources, the structure of the armed forces, and the kind of war for which the Soviet armed forces should be equipped and trained to fight. The result has been something of an impasse in defense policy: Khrushchev's efforts at reform have been deflected, modified, and even blocked. A military establishment adapted to the requirements for large-scale theater warfare on the European continent has continued to coexist with a military doctrine increasingly oriented toward the threat of nuclear warfare with a transoceanic enemy. In recent months, signs have accumulated that this impasse may be breaking. A new phase of controversy has been underway that appears to reflect pressures for change at the policy level. The character of the controversy, the circumstances in which it has developed, and the trends that it has exhibited suggest that a new step is being taken to resolve the inconsistencies in the existing doctrines concerning strategic and theater warfare. Tfhe latest phase in the controversy opened at the end of 1963, when an announcement by Khrushchev that a military manpower cut was being contemplated evoked a visible negative reaction from military leaders. It is now known that this announcement came at a time when a new program of strategic missile deployment was just getting underway. This coincidence, plus the initiation in the military press at the same O C - TOP CRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.