TOP SECRET 3 that either side, when faced with a choice between abandoning particular objectives d taking further military action to restore the position, would bank on the other's ctance to spread the war. On the Russian side this might lead them eventually take more positive measures than the military situation warranted. As the campaign developed Russian intervention would become more positive the nearer hostilities came to their frontier and the nearer China came to serious reverses.]* 14. If the U.N.