TY  - GEN
T1  - Engaging the enemy : organization theory and Soviet military innovation, 1955-1991
A1  - Marten, Kimberly Zisk, 1963-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1993
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm51444589
AB  - 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-
OP  - 286
CN  - UA770 .Z54 1993eb
SN  - 1400813980
SN  - 9781400813988
SN  - 9780691069821
SN  - 0691069824
SN  - 1282751719
SN  - 9781282751712
SN  - 9786612751714
SN  - 6612751711
SN  - 1400820936
SN  - 9781400820931
SN  - 1400808979
SN  - 9781400808977
KW  - Military doctrine : Soviet Union.
KW  - Doctrines militaires : URSS.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Military Science.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : Other.
KW  - Military doctrine
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Defence (Military strategy)
KW  - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -