Abstract
Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’ sees the security of the Soviet Union as ’increasingly a political and economic (rather than a military) problem’, it emphasizes ‘the exclusively defensive nature’ of Soviet military doctrine, and it calls for ‘a mandatory reduction in weapons and armed forces’. Does this portend one of the great turning points of Soviet military strategy, or does it merely signify a change in Soviet tactics and style? Are we witnessing a fundamental change in Soviet beliefs that lie at the core of the USSR’s ideological heritage — especially the nature of the military threat from the West — or are we just seeing a new twist to its long-held declaratory policy that it is a ‘peace-loving socialist state’?
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