CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9.pdf

a T iti : CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/26 °C : . ‘ 50X1-H vi CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY @ - WASHINGTON 25, Duc. * 8 DEC 1961 : MEMORANDUM FOR: ‘The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency SUBJECT > MILITARY THOUGHT: "The Theory of Military Art Needs Review", by Colone_-General A. Gastilovith 1. Enclosed is a verbatim translation of an article which appeared in the TCP SECRET § cial Collection of Articles of the Journal "Military Thought” CMcyentaye Mys1™) published by the Ministry of Defense, USSR, and distributed down to the …

: XN Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/26 : CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9 PRS Original: ccs The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency Military Assistant to the President Special Assistant to tre President for Naticnal Security Affairs Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Director for Intelligence The Jcint Staff Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence Headquarters, U. 5S. Air Force Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence Department of the Army Director of Naval Intelligence Department of the Navy Director, National Security Agency The Director of Intelligenc…

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy A > : py Approved for Release 2012/09/26 : CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9 cou 50X1-HUM 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 : A reliable source (B). Following is a verbatin translation of an articie titled "Me neory of Military Art Needs Reviews written by Colonel- General A. Gastilovich. mS This article appeared in the 1960 First Issue of a special © version of the Soviet military journal Voyennaya Mysl (Mili…

r Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy A : py Approved for Release 20108128 : CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9 L The Theory of Military Art Needs Review Colonel-General A. Gastilovich 50X1-HUM We all admt that nuclear weapons. and missiles change the conditions of war, but having said "a", we are afraid to say "b". Dropping curtsies in the direction of missiles and introducing some minor corrections in the theory of military art, we still hold in practice to the old positions existing at the end of World War Il. Past experience, traditions, and habits, taught to us for decades, tenaciously hold…

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/26 : CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9 pe ee 4 ue 100 such nuclear charges, detonated within e short period of time on an industrially developed country whose territory is approximtely 300-500 thousand square kilometers, will be sufficient to convert all of its industrial areas and administrative-political centers into a heap of rubble, and the territory -- into a lifeless desert contaminated with deadly radioactive substances.” _ It mst be clear to everyone that such statements are not mde for the sake of rhetoric, but are fully …

Declassified i 7 wa: ; classified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/26 : CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9 VGK missile troops completely change the neture of operaticas of ground troops, the navy, and aviation. It would be naive to think that the enemy will be incapable of delivering similar powerful suclear strikes against the territory of countries of the Socialist Camp and first and foremost agsinst the territory of the Soviet Union. But such strikes will not be able to knock these countries out of the wr. The superiority of the socialist structure with ite economic potenti…

Declassified in Part - at Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/26 : CIA-RDP10-00105R000402920001-9 million sons per year- The losses mene wring a ee aang the six ears of World war iI totaled Crom 3h sation persons killed and 28 million persons re ine os to ; 3 Iso of about 11 million persons per JOS: ® the on ate of 4al study by the Office of Civil oe USA aa cted tn 3955, the losses in the course of severe and +hermo- from the first aerial attack carried oat chiefly by atomic pons milli dead and about 2k million totaled 15 ion persons te OSA aoe nons sick and wounded, altogether up to 40 miiiice …