How Soviet Cold War Policies Fell Prey to the Temptations of Strategic Traps

Year 2020, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 1 - 20, 01.07.2020

Gültekin Sümer

https://doi.org/10.18354/esam.634757

Abstract

The Cold War
experience of the Soviet Union has brought about significant implications in
terms contributing to the strategic thought. The Soviet strategic experience
marked its place in history of strategic thought with  its stress of 
disharmony between ideology and strategy. It indicated  how a strategy under the yoke of an ideology
may well impel a hegemonic power falling into strategic traps. The underlying
cause of this fact was that the pre-eminence of ideological goals on the part
of the Soviet regime involved much more sophisticated  strategic adaptation capability which was
extremely hard to achieve. Yet, her inner philosophic logic  remained incoherent and weak in terms of
finding correct the strategic  responses
faced with the dynamics of the Cold War.

Keywords

Strategic Trap, Soviet Union, The Cold War, Strategy, Europe

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