Research Catalog

Title

The initial period of war : a Soviet view / chief author S.P. Ivanov.

Author

Ivanov, S. P.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : U.S. Air Force : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1986.

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Details

Description

viii, 311 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Soviet military thought ; no. 20

Uniform Title

• Nachalʹnyĭ period voĭny. English
• Soviet military thought ; no. 20.

Alternative Title

Nachalʹnyĭ period voĭny.

Subject

• Soviet (Russian) military experience
• 1900-1999
• World War, 1939-1945
• Strategy
• Military history, Modern > 20th century
• Military history, Modern
• Strategy

Note

• Translation of: Nachalʹnyĭ period voĭny.
• "Translated and published under the auspices of the United States Air Force."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Part I: The formation and development of views on the initial period of war from the Nineteenth Century until the 1940s -- The organizational development of the Armed Forces and the development of military theories in the main capitalist nations between the two World Wars -- The organizational development of the Soviet Armed Forces and the elaboration of views in the USSR on the character of future war and its initial period -- Part II: Strategic planning and Armed Forces deployment on the eve of and at the start of World War II -- The military and political bases for strategic planning -- The goals and plans of the initial campaigns and first operations of the capitalist armies -- Methods of strategic deployment of the capitalist nations' armed forces -- The concealment of aggression in Europe and the Pacific -- Fascist Germany's plans in the war against the USSR. Strategic deployment of the armed forces -- The Soviet Union's preparations to repel fascist aggression -- Part III: The initial strategic operations -- The initial Offensive Operations in the European Theaters of Operations -- The collapse of the strategic defense in Poland and Western Europe -- Specific features of the Soviet Armed Forces' strategic defense at the start of the Great Patriotic War -- Preparing for and making a surprise initial attack after opening a new strategic front (From the experience of the Soviet Armed Forces 1945 Campaign in the Far East) -- Specific features of initial operations in the War in the Pacific -- Winning air supremacy and organizing national air defense at the start of the war -- Conclusion.

LCCN

86008078

OCLC

• ocm13526074
• 13526074
• SCSB-1394071

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library