Soviet Military Power and Global Influence

Chapter 5 showed how the USSR has developed impressive nuclear and conventional military capabilities to support its war aims against what it perceives as a range of credible military contingencies. There is more, of course, to Soviet military power than the development of a military machine for ultimate use in war. Military power is used for projecting influence overseas, for underpinning the Soviet Union’s Superpower status, and for bringing about through the use of force — or the threat of its use — developments favourable to Soviet state interests. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.