Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990 (Volume 58) (W...

Description: Product Description : Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990 (Volume 58) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) During the Cold War when the United States intelligence efforts were focused on the Soviet Union one of the primary tasks of the Central Intelligence Agency was to estimate Soviet defense spending Because this information was used for planning by the US military the executive branch and Congress the CIAs estimates were usually right in the middle of one of the biggest and most enduring political battles in Washingtonthe annual struggle over the size of the US defense budgetDespite this central role the CIA estimates played in governmental and public debate throughout the decades of the Cold War the need to protect sensitive intelligence sources and methods meant that only summary information about them could be made public With the breakup of the Soviet Union that need for sensitivity has greatly diminished and for the first time a thorough unclassified presentation of CIA estimates of Soviet defense spending from those years has been madeIn Soviet Defense Spending A History of CIA Estimates 19501990 Noel E Firth and James H Noren who spent much of their long CIA careers estimating and studying Soviet defense spending provide a closer look at those estimates and consider how and why they were made In the process the authors chronicle the development of a significant intelligence analytic capability Firth and Noren also explain what the CIA has learned since the collapse of the Soviet Union about the USSRs actual militaryspending during the Cold WarFor historians and political scientists interested in the Cold War USSoviet relations the politics of defense spending and the history of US intelligence and estimation of Soviet forces Soviet Defense Spending will be a valuable and enlightening explanation of a crucial part of the US intelligence system Students of Soviet economic and political history will find it useful as an overview of Soviet military development and as an informative slice of the history of USSoviet relations( it is an used product )

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