Theory of stand-off wars: debatable points.

From: Military Thought | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Podsoblyaev, Ye.F. | Copyright information

An attempt to formulate and validate the problem associated with the elaboration of a theory of stand-off wars (1) has attracted sufficiently much attention in the military scientific circles in recent years. Its main ideas sparked off a media discussion (2) that had the aim of influencing the development of the domestic military theory and the national armed forces. As is evident from an analysis of those publications, not all provisions of the suggested theory meet the requiremen...

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