Matters Of Perspective: Versioned Realities in Cold War WMD Intelligence

Matters of Perspective: Versioned Realities in Cold War WMD Intelligence is a study of the development and evolution, during three decades, of the Soviet WMD Operation-the integrated employment of at least nuclear and chemical weapons against the NATO alliance.The book examines the 1950s origination; creation of an expansive war fighting mechanism; apparent deletion of the CW variant in the 1970s; alterations in nuclear strategy; and non-nuclear options. Aspects of a unique strategic culture-inherited by the Russia successor-exhibited in an extensive array of classified documents acquired by the CIA is a significant element. Soviet theater operations planning to exploit mass destruction and conventional weapons by the mobilization and deployment of fronts (the basic ground-aviation assault groupings) provide context. Both substantive and perceptual problems of Western intelligence assessments are explored including details of stunning analytic failures.The 352 pages include 54 pages of illustrations. Read more