Soviet military doctrine

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Soviet military doctrine is a Cold War–era strategic and operational framework developed by the USSR, emphasizing large-scale conventional warfare, centralized command, and combined-arms operations shaped by Marxist-Leninist military theory.

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instanceOf Cold War doctrine
military doctrine
appliesTo Soviet Armed Forces NERFINISHED
assumes possibility of rapid escalation to nuclear war
protracted global confrontation with NATO
basedOn Leninist military theory NERFINISHED
Marxism–Leninism NERFINISHED
experience of World War II
codifiedIn Soviet field manuals
Soviet military regulations
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
developedBy Soviet General Staff NERFINISHED
Soviet Ministry of Defense NERFINISHED
distinguishesBetween military-technical aspects of war
socio-political aspects of war
emphasizes centralized command and control
combined-arms operations
deep operations
large-scale conventional warfare
massive use of artillery
offensive operations
operational maneuver groups
rapid exploitation of breakthroughs
strategic surprise
includesConcept Warsaw Pact combined operations
correlation of forces
deep battle
deep operation
echeloned defense
frontal offensive
maskirovka
operational art
strategic nuclear parity
influenced Soviet military education and training
Warsaw Pact military planning
influencedBy Alexander Svechin NERFINISHED
Georgy Isserson NERFINISHED
Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED
Mikhail Frunze NERFINISHED
Vladimir Lenin NERFINISHED
prioritizes large standing ground forces
mass mobilization
operational-level planning
political control over the military
requires party oversight through political commissars
strict hierarchy of command
timePeriod Cold War
views nuclear weapons as usable instruments of war
war as continuation of politics by violent means

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Syrian Arab Army doctrineInfluence Soviet military doctrine
Committee on Technology and Armaments influencedBy Soviet military doctrine
Vasily Sokolovsky notableWork Soviet military doctrine
this entity surface form: Military Strategy (Soviet military doctrine book)
Deep operation developedBy Soviet military doctrine
this entity surface form: Red Army theorists