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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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time of a new discussion of military doctrine -- recalling the discus- sion initiated by Khrushchev in connection with his earlier reform program in 1960 -- suggested that a new effort was getting underway to bring Soviet military policy into line with Khrushchev's strategic con- cepts. The initial course of discussion in the military press during the early months of this year, however, indicated little progress for re- form. Although most of the articles in the new doctrinal series ex- hibited a veneer of modernist verbiage, many of them reiterated tra- ditionalist arguments tending to support the need for maintaining theater warfare capabilities in contemporary conditions. A virtual resurgence of traditionalist agitation occurred at one stage in the discussion when a cluster of articles appeared openly extolling the "older" arms and even questioning the validity of newer "official" concepts. On the practical level, also, reform appeared to be faring poorly. Khru- shchev's proposal for the reduction of manpower remained officially in force, but there was very little evidence that any substantial force reductions were actually taking place. In the meantime, the military leadership maintained a conspicuous silence on the measure. HR70-14 In spite of these unfavorable auspices, however, the discussion took a turn in Khrushchev's favor and has now resulted in a major new doctrinal formulation that strongly reinforces his campaign for reform. The principal contribution of the new formulation is to remove the ambiguity that heretofore surrounded the Soviet concept of the -3- TO ECRET
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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.