MILITARY POLITICAL TASKS OF THE SOVIET NAVY IN WAR AND PEACE
Published Date: February 1, 1981
This paper presents an analysis of a series of eleven articles by Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union S.G. Gorshkov. The position is taken that the articles reflect a Soviet political decision to withhold a substantial portion of their submarine launched ballistic missiles from the initial strikes in order to carry out 'deterrence' in war, conduct intra-war bargaining, and influence the peace talks at the end of the war.
