2 TOP SECRET Summary Soviet Object in War 7. It seems most unlikely that the Soviet leaders believe that they could defeat the entire Western world, chiefly because of their inability to defeat decisively their foremost enemy, the United States. In the event of war therefore they would have to content themselves with the limited object of trying to create a position in which the Soviet Union would be invulnerable to land attack and considerably less vulnerable to air attack, in the hope of returning to cold war in which to continue their fight against the United States, or until strong enough to tackle her by hot war later.
- Collection ID
- CAB158
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- Bulgaria Burma China Crete Denmark East Germany Egypt Formosa France Germany Greece India Indochina Iraq Italy Japan Korea Malaya Norway Pakistan Persia Portugal Russia Siam Sicily South Korea Soviet Union Spain Sweden Syria Turkey United Kingdom United States of America West Germany Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- CAB 158/15/38
- Document Types
- Report Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 158/15
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab158.0015.038
- Keywords
- Military Intelligence Assessing Enemy Strength Predicting Enemy Intentions Contingency Planning Threat Of War With The Ussr War Preparations Strategy Geographic Intelligence Soviet Army Soviet Air Force Soviet Navy Military Strength Naval Strength Air Power Atomic Warfare Military Objectives Air Raids Airfields Soviet Foreign Policy Resources Oil Air Warfare
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Ministry of Defence United Nations Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 12
- Persons Discussed
- Anthony Buzzard Charles Carstairs Patrick Dean Francis Fressanges Eric Searight Arthur Shortt Kenneth Strong
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
