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Military Science is defined as a ‘“‘unified system of knowledge about 
the preparation and waging of armed struggle.’ It “is the subject 
of great Party concern.””* “Its basis is Marxism-Leninism, and its 
most important cognitive method is materialist dialectics.” ”° “‘Its main 
task has been and remains its elaboration of questions relating to 
insuring constant high combat readiness—the socio-political and 
economic level of developed socialist society creates—the conditions 
for resolving this central task’’.2”7 The Party demands that military- 
scientific cadres “‘intensify and deepen their work in military theory, 
be bold in their ideas and undertakings, and improve the methods 
for solving problems.”’?8 Military science develops “‘the theory and 
practice of military art in every way,” utilizes “the achievements of 
scientific and technical progress,” improves existing and searches for 
new “managerial and personnel-training methods and forms.’’”° It can- 
not “decline to analyse new phenomena,” as it must look to the 
future, and consider all possibilities and hypotheses.’ °° Challenges 
are welcome. It is obliged to ‘‘constantly seek new ways.”’*! 
Military doctrine, however, “‘is based on the conclusions of Soviet 
military science—(and) is a synthesis of (its) knowledge.” Military 
doctrine is the specific ‘‘unified guiding view accepted by the Soviet 
state concerning the fundamental problem of preparing the country 
and the entire people.’** It incorporates those aspects of military 
science that are appropriate to the contemporary period, and is there- 
fore inherently correct and nonflexible. Any challenge to it would 
hence cause ‘‘a serious fissure in the entire military structure.” ** It 
would be unthinkable. 
Military strategy evolves from, and is dependent on, doctrine. It 
is that part of military art which is relevant to the situation of the 
day. It ‘“‘_proceeds from” the general tenets of doctrine. It “develops 
and studies concrete problems bearing on the nature of war.” It 
analyzes “‘the conditions and factors that determine, at any given 
historical moment, the nature of a future war, the distribution of 
military and political forces, the quality and quantity of weapons, 
the military and economic potential, the probable composition and 
strength of the opposing coalitions and their geographical distributions. 
It develops the means for a war’s conduct.”’*° 
But there are also other aspects to doctrine. The economy “‘exerts 
a determining influence—the country’s economic might is the most 
important basis of its defense capability.” “‘. . . the consistent and 
specific implementation of the economic and social policy formulated 
by the—CPSU” is of paramount importance.*® And not only are 
24 Sidelnikov, Krasnaya Zvezda, May 11, 1962. 
ee ae Grechko, Voprosi Istorii KPSS, (Questions of History of the CPSU), Moscow, May 1974. 
27 Ibid. 
8 Ibid. 
9 Ibid. 
3°Kozlov, Kommunist Vooruzhiennikh Sil, (Communist of the Armed Forces), Moscow, No. 5, 
1964. 
31 Grechko, Voprosi Istorii KPSS, op. cit. 
32 Sidelnikov, op. cit. 
33 Ibid. 
34 Kozlov, op. cit. 
%5V. D. Sokolovsky, Voennaya Strategia, (revised English ed., ‘‘Military Strategy,’ Praeger, 1963). 
36 Grechko, Voprosi Istorii KPSS, op. cit. 
