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US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger presenting President Ronald Reagan with the first copy of Soviet Military Power. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the US public to the ...
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The 197th Motor Rifle Division was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army. The division was based in Uryupinsk and existed from 1966 to 1987. In 1987, it became a territorial training center. The training center became a road construction training brigade in 1990. [1]
1986 map showing the Soviet Military Forces. The Soviet Union established an indigenous arms industry as part of Stalin's industrialization program in the 1920s and 1930s. The five-round, stripper clip-fed, bolt-action Mosin–Nagant rifle remained the primary shoulder firearm of the Red Army through World War II. Over 17 million model 91/30 ...
The Soviet colossus: history and aftermath (Routledge, 2019) Marples, David R. The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don.
International Institute for Strategic Studies (1987). The Military Balance 1987-88. Tavistock Street, London: Brassey's for the IISS. Isby, David C. (1988). Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army. Jane's Publishing Company. Matlock, Jack F. (1995). Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union ...
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War.It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc, the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The content of the journal was devoted to the study of problems of military policy, military art and other aspects of military affairs. After the October Revolution, on June 1, 1918, a journal with similar content began to be published in the Soviet Republic under the title "Military Affairs". In the period until 1937, the magazine repeatedly ...