"A National Strategy for the Soviet Union," Address by Rear Admiral L. C. Stevens to the National War College
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A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE SOVIET UNION
Address by Rear Admiral L. C. Stevens, U. S. Navy
to the
National War College
on
25 January 1951
You would much prefer that I talk to you directly and not from
a prepared paper. So would I, if I had not been beguiled into accepting
an assignment as broad and controversial as that of a national strategy
for the Soviet Union. But I am sure that I would not be half through
at the end of my time and that we would end up in a state of confusion.
Perhaps we will anyhow.
Only the future can prove whose ideas are right and whose are
wrong. I am well aware that history can prove mine wrong tomorrow,
but if I did not believe they had at least as high a degree of probability
as conflicting views, I would not advance them today. To my mind they
have an overall consistency and give adequate weight to elements that
seem highly important to me. At least we are all agreed that any
counsel which would keep the United States from being prepared is false.
Doubtless everyone who talks to you on the Soviet Union starts
off by saying that in actual fact we know very little about it. There
are good reasons for this. Russia has always been a secret country,
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