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	Marshal of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1943 Stalin himself was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and in 1945 he was joined by his police chief Lavrenti Beria.
		These "political" Marshals were joined in 1947 by Nikolai Bulganin.
		All of these were officers in World War II, but their higher commands were held in the Warsaw Pact or as Soviet Defence Ministers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union (802 words)

	The Ogarkov factor. (Nikolai Ogarkov and intermediate-range nuclear missile control proposals) - National Review - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the fall of 1985--about a yearafter this change of functions--a rumor swept through NATO headquarters in Brussels to the effect that Ogarkov, in a book latterly published in Moscow, History Teaches Vigilance, had discarded the established Soviet doctrine that a nuclear war is winnable through a Soviet first strike.
		What is now known to Western intelligence(and therefore to the leading NATO governments) is that Ogarkov did begin to question the validity of the Sokolovsky orthodoxy at a time of rapidly increasing technological sophistication in such fields as miniaturization and guidance systems.
		At the time of the great debate, though a member of the Politburo, he was not yet in a position to impose decisions: The ailing and intellectually barren Chernenko was still in the chair.
	highbeam.com /library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:4963503&... (767 words)

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		At the end of the meeting they have decided, as a preliminary plan, to develop two options: (1) to remove H. Amin by the hands of KGB special agents, and to put Babrak Karmal in his place; (2) to send some number of Soviet troops on the territory of Afghanistan for the same purposes.
		On December 10, 1979, the Defense Minister of the USSR D. Ustinov summoned Chief of General Staff N. Ogarkov, and informed him that the Politburo had reached a preliminary decision of a temporary introduction of the Soviet troops into Afghanistan, and ordered him to prepare approximately 75 to 80 thousand people.
		N. Ogarkov was surprised and outraged by such a decision, and said that 75 thousand would not be able to stabilize the situation, and that he was against the introduction of troops, calling it “reckless.” The Minister of Defense cut him off harshly: “Are you going to teach the Politburo?
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB57/r8.doc (1071 words)

	Crusader 23 Page 5
		Marshall Nikolai Ogarkov in May, 1987 was elevated to the de-facto highest military position in Russia.
		Ogarkov has written frequently outlining an extremely aggressive plan of attack.
		One of his plans calls for an all-out surprise nuclear attack on the U.S.A. His promotion is a clear indication that Communist Russia under Gorbachev intends to use its ominous military superiority to defeat us and enslave us all.
	www.fatimacrusader.com /cr23/cr23pg05.asp (210 words)

	Marshal Ogarkov Has a Post In Soviet Defense Ministry - New York Times
		Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, the Chief of Staff who was removed in 1984, now holds a post in the Defense Ministry, according to the Soviet feature syndicate Novosti.
		Marshal Ogarkov wrote a brief article in the October issue of a Novosti monthly called Military Courier.
		Marshal Ogarkov was Chief of Staff and a First Deputy Defense Minister from 1977 until September 1984, when he was replaced by Marshal Sergei F. Akhromeyev without explanation.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE7DA1638F933A05753C1A960948260 (147 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Gorbachev's Strategy, and Ours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		...Ogarkov's attempt to launch a perestroika for purely military purposes failed and because he insisted overmuch, in September 1984 Andropov finally removed him from his exalted position...
		...And while Ogarkov's incomplete remedy would have failed, Gorbachev's version-which adds a literally disarming mass-media detente campaign throughout the world and glasnost to the restructuring of industry and the scientific establishment-is showing every sign of success, in its foreign dimensions at least...
		...armed forces, Ogarkov increased his emphasis on the strategic-nuclear aspect of the Soviet Union's technology crisis, and raised the temperature even higher...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V88I1P31-1.htm (5485 words)

	Soviet Union - THE PARTY AND THE ARMED FORCES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Despite a downturn in economic growth, the chief of the General Staff, Nikolai V. Ogarkov, argued for more resources to develop advanced conventional weapons.
		Ogarkov became commander in chief of the Western TVD, a crucial wartime command position that exists primarily on paper in peacetime.
		He was retired under Gorbachev and assumed a largely ceremonial post in the Main Inspectorate.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-12885.html (468 words)

	Dreaming About War
		During the Cold War, a standard part of the cultural equipment of Republican defense experts was the idea that strategic genius resided within the Soviet military; otherwise life would be as pallid as a James Bond movie in which the villain doesn't have a fiendishly clever diabolical scheme.
		Ogarkov quickly became required reading in American defense circles.
		The most important promoter of the R.M.A. in America has been Andrew W. Marshall, the head of the Pentagon's obscure Office of Net Assessment, a cult figure in his own right, and one of the most curious and interesting figures in the defense world.
	www.comw.org /qdr/0107lemann.html (3007 words)

	Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With the collapse of superpower détente, the advances in Western strategy and their implementation threatened to vitiate the offensive strategy that had been the staple of Soviet planning for war in Europe ever since the 1961 peak of the Berlin crisis.
		Soviet chief of staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov took the lead in trying to draw consequences from what he perceived as the West's new confidence in its ability to fight and win a war in Europe, with or without resort to nuclear weapons.
		Attesting to the monumental lack of trust between the superpowers, in February 1983 RYaN’s level of alert was increased and KGB officers abroad were assigned to keep “continual watch” for any indications of a surprise attack.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /php/documents/collection_17/texts/mastny.htm (2578 words)

	CNN Cold War - Interviews: Valentin Varennikov
		According to [Nikolai] Ogarkov, who was head of the General Staff, more than once he saw Brezhnev speaking in a very agitated way about Amin having acted very badly, and saying that the cruel murder of the general secretary [Taraki] and his comrade couldn't be allowed.
		It was a very savage act, in our opinion; and apart from that, Amin not only killed Taraki, but what was worse, he didn't meet Brezhnev's proposals halfway.
		As to Gromyko, he kept silent most of the time, and the General Staff more than once expressed a negative position through Ogarkov, at the same meetings in the meeting room of the Politburo.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/20/interviews/varennikov (1798 words)

	Soviet Union (former) Military Doctrine in the Late 1980s - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, ...
		Soviet military doctrine continued to assume that the Soviet Union could fight and prevail in a nuclear war and that Soviet strategic nuclear missiles could influence a war's course and outcome.
		Nevertheless, prominent military figures voiced concern about the military efficacy of nuclear weapons, among them the former chief of the General Staff, Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai V. Ogarkov; Colonel General Makhmut A. Gareev, author of a monograph on military theoretician Frunze; and Volkogonov, chief editor of Marxist-Leninist Teaching on War and the Army.
		Ogarkov, in particular, advanced the revolutionary view that a twenty-first-century battlefield might be dominated by nonnuclear, high-technology armaments and a global war could be fought with conventional weapons alone.
	www.photius.com /countries/soviet_union_former/government/soviet_union_former_government_military_doctrine_in~11310.html (638 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Tsar's Lieutenant, by Thomas G. Butson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When Soviet chief of staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov stepped in front of the TV cameras to deliver the official explanation for the 1983 downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, editors all over the world were sent scurrying to their files for material on this newest and most unexpected of Soviet public-relations men.
		...WHEN Soviet chief of staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov stepped in front of the TV cameras to deliver the official explanation for HENRIK BERING-JENSEN is a Danish critic and journalist currently living in the United States...
		...And the frantic and self-contradictory efforts to explain Ogarkov's sudden demotion precisely one year later revealed more about Western hopes and fears than they did about the inner workings of the Soviet top military establishment...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V79I4P79-1.htm (2353 words)

	CIA Study: A Cold War Conundrum, the 1983 Soviet War Scare
		The dichotomy between his public statements and his confidential remarks to the US journalist was striking; it indicated that he understood better than most political and other military leaders the challenge posed by American military technology.
		Ogarkov asserted that the regional air defense unit had identified the aircraft as a US intelligence platform, an RC-135 of the type that routinely performed intelligence operations along a similar fight path.
		Ogarkov gave a good performance, but his remarks were a coverup from the beginning to end.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/film/ciawar.htm (17139 words)

	Dedefensa.org
		Gelb held this conversation with Ogarkov just days after Reagan's SDI announcement, but he did not report it until 1992.
		Ogarkov claimed, among other things, that Soviet pilot Maj. Gennady Osipovich had tried to make radio contact; that he had fired visible warning shots using tracer ammunition; and that the jumbo jet did not have its navigation lights on.
		Somewhat later Ogarkov's replacement, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, adamantly insisted to American journalist Don Oberdorfer that KAL 007 was on a secret mission.
	www.dedefensa.org /article.php?art_id=878 (8511 words)

	Dick's New Russia Transition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nikolai Bulganin was Premier and he was ousted in early 1958, allowing Khrushchev to be Premier and Party Secretariat.
		In the fall of 1985 the changes continued with 80 year-old Brezhnev crony Nikolai Tikhonov retiring as prime minister, replaced by the technocrat Ryzhkov who came from Sverdlovsk's Uralmash factory while technocrat Nikolai Talyzin was named first deputy prime minister and head of Gosplan, the state's planning agency.
		Ogarkov made his May 1984 interview and its startling view of the growing gap.
	members.aol.com /RAmann2996/new_russia.html (9009 words)

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		Even those who made the case for a transformation of war did so by citing Soviet writings on the subject: the chief of the Soviet general staff.
		Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, was a better-known theorist than any American general or admiral.
		Low-level violence for peripheral, remote, or ambiguous political objectives was routine; an example was the use of concrete bombs on adroitly placed Iraqi surface-to-air missile sites.
	www.eppc.org /publications/pubID.1768/pub_detail.asp (1012 words)

	Crusader 23 Page S1
		To remove any doubt about the Communists' intentions, we need only consider the appointment in May 1987 of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov to the (de facto) highest military position in all of Russia.
		Ogarkov is the extremely dangerous and brilliant Russian military strategist who is well known for his many books, articles and speeches calling for all-out war against us.
		By this plan, Ogarkov intends to create such devastating destruction that the United States could not respond with any effective counter-attack.
	www.fatima.org /crusader/cr23/cr23pgs1-4.asp?printer (1746 words)

	Biographical Files of Elizabeth Teague: Container List
		Riverov, Yurii - Rodionov, Mikhail I. Rodionov, Nikolai N. - Rodygin.
		Savitsy, Valerii - Sazonov, A.P. Sazonov, Nikolai - Sekretarev, Aleksandr
		Sekretariuk, Viacheslav V. - Selivanov, V.V. Seliunin, Vasilii I. Semakov, Sergei - Semenov, Nikolai A. Semenov, Nikolai I. - Semenov, Vladimir
	www.osa.ceu.hu /db/fa/300-5-151-1.htm (4897 words)

	Association of the United States Army: Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The economic strain was beginning to tell and come out in secret sessions of the Politburo in Moscow, however, and the Soviet system was poorly structured to deal with bad news in a rational manner.
		Leebaert relates the frustration of Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Ogarkov over his country’s inability to match U.S. advances in microelectronics.
		The marshal would be cashiered and "promoted" to a non-existent command in the west to silence his warnings of a potential shift of power in the direction of U.S. high-tech weaponry.
	www.ausa.org /webpub/DeptArmyMagazine.nsf/byid/CCRN-6CCS64 (3622 words)

	Come the revolution - innovations in communications and weaponry - Defense & Technology - Column National Review - Find ...
		The idea, simply put, is that the same technologies that have transformed the American workplace may have no less profound an effect on the American way of war.
		The idea that we are living in a period of revolutionary change in the conduct of war goes back some 15 years, to the writings of a host of senior Soviet officers, including the chief of the General Staff, Nikolai Ogarkov.
		These Soviet theorists believed that within a decade or two conventional weapons would have the military effects of small nuclear weapons -- that is, that a salvo of precision guided weapons, remotely directed, could destroy scores of armored vehicles in minutes, if not seconds.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n14_v47/ai_17367744 (807 words)

	Situational Awareness
		A Kosovo could be done in a few days instead of an agonizing, alliance-eroding 11 weeks.
		Military historians will know that Owens's systems of systems is not an original American invention: it merely renames the Reconnaissance-Strike System brilliantly advocated in the Brezhnev years by Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, chief of the Soviet General Staff, which was as rich in ideas as it was deficient in computers.
		Still, if Owens has invented nothing, he has certainly been a most notable military innovator, or at least he has tried to be.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/01/01/21/reviews/010121.21luttwat.html (989 words)

	The Lancaster Index - Archive Search Results
		Expounds the views of chief of the Soviet general staff, 1977-84, which set this 'revolution' in marxist-historicist terms (1) unity of opposites (2) transition from quantitative to qualitative change (3) 'negation of the negation', when old weapons replaced by new ones do and do not force a fundamental change in organizational structure.
		From this problems affecting the military arise, concerning (1) personnel and the structure of the armed forces (2) closer integration of military and civilian resources (3) nature of modern warfare.
		Concludes that (1) Ogarkov's views on increasing the role of the military in crises and its share of economic resources led to his ousting (2) his influence, if not presence, in the highest echelons of Soviet politics will continue.
	www.mpr.co.uk /scripts/sweb.dll/li_archive_item?method=GET&object=CST_1987_6_01 (356 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In The Fifty Year War, Norman Friedman wrote, "In 1977 Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov was appointed head of the Soviet general staff specifically to modernize the Soviet armed forces.
		What Ogarkov apparently did not realize was that the missile-building organization created by Khrushchev and Brezhnev already sopped up most of the country's capacity to develop and mass-produce new kinds of electronic devices.
		To create new industries it was necessary to tear apart existing ones.
	www.frontpagemag.com /GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=8205&commentID=103843 (192 words)

	Bush's RMA
		Nicholas Lemann, in "Dreaming About War," [below] outlines the defense strategy of President George W. Bush, and specifically Bush's evident decision to sign on to the Revolution in Military Affairs.
		The Revolution, or R.M.A., is a defense theory that was first suggested by the Soviet Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, in 1982, and that has since been elaborated upon by American strategists, including Andrew W. Marshall, the head of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment.
		It favors a more agile, flexible defense with quicker strike capabilities and cants toward information and high-tech warfare.
	www.bushnews.com /rma.htm (3339 words)

	Rethinking Foreign Policy (Conclusion)
		Richard Pipes, a top Russian scholar of conservative leanings, depicted the situation correctly: the USSR was a basket-case on a war footing, allocating to its military-industrial complex (broadly conceived) something between 25 and 40 percent of GNP.
		No wonder, then, that in the early 1980s, before Mikhail Gorbachev was elected general secretary, the chief of the Soviet general staff, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, was proclaiming to all who would listen the urgent need for perestroika (his term).
		Had America's intelligence community combined economic savvy with political realism, it might have been given far greater attention to these frenetic calls for economic restructuring that were coming out of the Soviet establishment.
	www.objectivistcenter.org /cth--321-Rethinking_Foreign_Policy_Conclusion.aspx (3079 words)

	A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare
		This private rumination was all the more remarkable because Ogarkov's public statements showed him to be a hawk's hawk who compared the United States to Nazi Germany and argued repeatedly for more resources to continue the arms competition.
		Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov during his September 9, 1983 press conference on the shootdown of KAL 007.
		A classified memorandum submitted to the Politburo by the Defense Ministry and the KGB shows that the Soviet leadership held much the same view in private.
	www.milnet.com /cia/conundrum/source.htm (9064 words)

	Audio Asylum Thread Printer
		In Reply to: In which we meet Nikolai Ogarkov posted by clarkjohnsen on July 11, 2001 at 11:25:11:
		Showing the boys in uniforms for a bunch of morons is good and should be done more often.
		In Reply to: Re: In which we meet Nikolai Ogarkov posted by Victor Khomenko on July 11, 2001 at 17:30:00:
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