Description
| Summary: | Did a ""doctrine race"" exist alongside the much-publicized arms competition between East and West? Using recent insights from organization theory, Kimberly Marten Zisk answers this question in the affirmative. Zisk challenges the standard portrayal of Soviet military officers as bureaucratic actors wedded to the status quo: she maintains that when they were confronted by a changing external security environment, they reacted by producing innovative doctrine. The author's extensive evidence is drawn from newly declassified Soviet military journals, and from her interviews with retired high-
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 1400813980
9781400813988
9780691069821
0691069824
1282751719
9781282751712
9786612751714
6612751711
1400820936
9781400820931
1400808979
9781400808977 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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