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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum of 18 December 1961, sent to the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, encloses a verbatim translation of a Soviet article from the top secret 1960 first issue of the special collection of Military Thought. In the article, Colonel-General A. Gastilovich argues that nuclear missiles call for revising Soviet military doctrine. He favors short blitz operations, smaller ground forces and new rescue troops. It mentions "flying saucers" only as ground effect machines for army aviation.
j,3(a)( ') - COUNTRY USSR SUBJECT : MILITARY THOUGHT: "The Theory of Military Art - -. Needs Review" by Colonel-General A. Gastilovich -. - - DATE OF' INFO: Early 1960 - " ' 'APPRAISAL OF . CONTENT :- Documentary SOURCE "s A reliable source (B). - , Following is a verbatim translation of an article titled - "The Theory of Military Art Needa Review' written by Colonel- General A. Gastilovich. This article appeared in the 1960 First Issue of a special - version of the Soviet military journal Voyennaya M . (Military Thourht). . This journal is published irregularly and is classified -' - - TOP SECRET by the:Soviets. The First Issue of 1960 was the initial . - ,issue of thisapecial collection,'and thiis article by Colonel-, General Gastilovich has been a subject of controversy .in numerous - subsequent articles. . " .. . * .. . ."1 1 . I "-1.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 23 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.