Quantity versus quality in today's Soviet navy

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Tsypkin, Mikhail
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2007-12-18
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
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Such aspects of the proclaimed new Soviet military doctrine as 'reasonable sufficiency' and 'defensive strategy' are receiving considerable attention from Western observers. At the same time, relatively less attention is being paid to another facet of this doctrine: the transition from quantity to quality in providing for the defense needs of the Soviet Union, announced by Mikhail Gorbachev at the 19th Communist Party Conference in June 1988. From now on, the Soviet leader stated, the security of the USSR would rely not on quantitative factors, but on high quality of military manpower, military hardware and military science.
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National Security Affairs
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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17 p.
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Mikhail Tsypkin (1991) Quantity versus quality in today's Soviet navy, The Journal of Soviet Military Studies, 4:1, 124-140
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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