2 TOP SECRET Since Communists hold that the capitalist and imperialist world will decay of itself, our view has been that the Soviet Government's programme of world revolution is a long-term one and that they intend if possible to achieve their aim without a total war, using their armed forces as a threat to support successive steps of subversion and of aggression by proxy rather than committing them to direct aggression. We thought last year that they would have been supported in this view by events in the Middle East and by the strains to which the economy of Western Europe was being subjected through rearmament.
- Collection ID
- CAB158
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- China Egypt Germany India Indochina Japan Kenya Korea Malaya Pakistan Persia South Africa Soviet Union United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 158/14/69
- Document Types
- Report Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 158/14
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab158.0014.069
- Keywords
- Assessing Enemy Strength Predicting Enemy Intentions Contingency Planning War Preparations Threat Of War With The Ussr Military Strength Military Objectives Rearmament Defence Soviet Army Soviet Air Force Soviet Navy Soviet Government Soviet Satellite States Political Intelligence Eastern Bloc Western Bloc Naval Strength Air Power Economy Economic Intelligence Atomic Warfare
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Staff Ministry of Defence Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 8
- Persons Discussed
- Anthony Buzzard Francis Fressanges Patrick Reilly Eric Searight Arthur Shortt Josef Stalin Kenneth Strong
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
