SOVIET MILITARY THOUGHT ON LARGE - SCALE NONNUCLEAR WAR IN EUROPE

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2001
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• Publication Date: January 18, 1963
• Content Type: IM

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DD/I RESEARCH STAFF
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
; IA/R3 IM 63-12
T.S. No. 186386/63
163 January 1962
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;"f PJECT: Soviet Military Thought on Large-Scale Nonnuclear
War in Europe
1. Last year, signs of an awakened Soviet interest in
the possibility of large-scale, nonnuclear war limited to
central Euro- ::e appeared in an open Soviet. publication--a
rather exceptional Defense Ministry book entitled "M itary
~'trategy."* Not surprisingly, this event touched off a
controversy among U. J :intelligence specialists as to its
Meaning for 1" viet military planning. The controversy does
not as yet seem to have been resolved, mainly because the
facts in the case are elusive. In this memorandum we have
tried to nail down the few pertinent facts which our research
has uncovered, in the hope of providing a basis for assessing
Soviet intentions regarding limited war in Europe.
2. It should be stated forthwith that available af-
f: irmat:ivo evidence bearing on the question of Soviet inter25X1C
ost in nonnuclear war in Europe is scant, unconfirmed, and
ambiguous. It would therefore be premature to infer at this
juncture that there has been a change in the strongly negative
view which Soviet officialdom has long taken of the possibility
of serious limited war in Europe. At the most, what can be
stated at this time is that the question of possible nonnuclear
war in Europo ---conspicuously absent from
Soviet military discourse in 1960-61--has in L962 been put up
signed to press in May l c-)62
but made available here only last fall, was reviewed in its
entirety in a previous nlemorandumn, DDI RSM No. 2 of 10 October
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