What It Means

.Always in Readiness to Defend the Homeland, is also not fiction"A book

authored in 1982 by the then Chief of the Soviet General Staff, Marshal
Ogarkov, entitled
Ogarkov stated:
... The task of achieving continuous preparedness for the immediate
mobilization deployment of troops and naval forces, prompt and
expeditious shifting of the Armed Forces and the entire national economy
from a peacetime to war footing, is assuming particular national importance. The question of prompt expeditious shifting of Armed Forces and
the entire national economy to a war footing and their mobilization
deployment in a short period of time is much more critical today."
To which the Marshall added a uniquely Soviet view of negotiations with the
West:
"We should accompany our [negotiating] steps with maximum
military preparedness."
These ominous directives are consistent with the long-standing Soviet
belief that military supremacy is indispensable to eventual Communist global
dominance. As Soviet Marshal V. D. Sokolovsky stated sixteen years ago in the
base-line doctrinal work, Soviet Military Strategy:
"The creation and constant maintenance of quantitative and
qualitativesuperiority over the enemy in the nuclear means of armed
conflict ... is the most important problem of building modern armed
forces."
But today, the problem for America is not just that the Soviets have now
achieved their objective of strategic supremacy but that they are evidencing an
ever-growing propensity to employ strategic supremacy to assert their will.
All of the foregoing Soviet activities, considered together, are fully
consistent with Marshal Ogarkov's call for Soviet national mobilization on a
wartime basis. These activities are also ominously consistent with an intention
to use new military power for secret political intimidation as well as with the oft
repeated Russian subterfuge, a prime feature of Russian history, in which the
olive branch of peace is offered publicly to induce a potential victim population
to demand its own disarmament.

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The picture is too unmistakable to misperceive. The USSR has done all
those things that it needs to do in order to be in a position to mobilize swiftly
and with surprise its entire strategic potential for the initiation of war. That
central fact alone is far more threatening than any single component part, but
of the component parts, the potential for nuclear blackmail is the most
immediately dangerous to American national in-dependence.
To understand completely how the Soviets are using their awesome
military potential for political intimidation, we must recognize that, unlike
American forces, Soviet forces are equipped, trained, deployed, and exercised in
such a way that they can be used massively and simultaneously on many fronts
and at any force level in first strike attack with very little or no warning. The
significance of this new Soviet posture of high readiness for surprise action, the
keystone of Soviet military doctrine, is that Americans are already gradually
beginning to behave in ways affected by Soviet desires and some degree of
Soviet control."
Other Extracts from Soviet Military Supremacy

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