Collapse of the Soviet Military

"Mr. Odom, a former U.S. Army general and National Security Agency director now with the Hudson Institute, has written an exhaustive account of these years. He begins by looking at the ideological basis of Soviet military doctrine, to which he rightly ascribes central importance. 'For Lenin,' Mr. Odom writes, war 'was not just the continuation of politics by other means, it was the essence of politics, domestic and international, because it was the product of class struggle."'Odom, William E. is the author of 'Collapse of the Soviet Military', published 2000 under ISBN 9780300082715 and ISBN 0300082711.