آداب الرافدين (Aug 1972)
Soviet Strategy in the Cold War
Abstract
We can learn about the position of the Soviet Union on international relations from two aspects, one of which is studying the Marxist-Leninist ideology on the one hand or following the actual policy of the Soviet government and its reactions in international crises, and the second is the combination of ideology and application, with attention to the apparent motives and fear that move the decision-makers. The first question that poses itself is: Is the Soviet policy in the Cold War proceeding from an integrated strategic plan or merely interaction with tactical events? Although the relationship between strategy and tactics is intertwined and reciprocal, and it is sometimes difficult to draw separate and clear boundaries, and Marxist-Leninist thought explicitly stresses the necessity of recognizing the difference in essence, strategy from tactics and strategy deals with the basic conditions and deals with the main ingredients and what surrounds it, believing that the revolution does not stop at a specific stage. Rather, it is changeable, so it accompanies it from a believer that the revolution does not stop at a certain stage but rather is changing, so it accompanies it in terms of adaptation, but it preserves its essence during a certain stage of development in the socio-economic relations of human society which is governed by certain contradictions that are dialectically consistent with the historical framework For human relations. The strategy differs from the tactic in terms of the objective you pursue. Since the struggle between the socialist forces and the bourgeois imperialist forces is an inevitable historical and dialectical phenomenon, the strategy aims at achieving the complete overthrow of the capitalist system and building a socialist society. From here it becomes clear to us that the horizon of the strategy is much welcome than the tactics, because it deals with a distant future to which developments are moving. It is necessary. In such a situation. That our strategic vision is general and based on considerations that have fundamental importance in the phenomenon, although they may be hidden in a specific period of time. And so on . Tactic is the one that deals with issues and developments in a limited time, the dimensions of which draw certain conditions and existing circumstances, such as a standard of actual force, the forces it uses, the nature of its goals, its practical methods, its system of ideas and perceptions of reality. Stalin wrote in 1924 about strategy that “strategy relates to the basic forces of the revolution and its reserves, and changes with the revolution moving from one stage to another, but remains fundamentally unchanged during a certain stage ... While the strategy aims to win the war against the bourgeoisie and the Turkic pursuit of goals Less important, because the goal of the tactic is not to win the war completely, but to win in certain clashes and battles.
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