ABSTRACT
From late 1945 until the early 1950s JCS war, mobilization, and logistics plans had a number of common characteristics. American planners assumed that the USSR did not intend to launch a general war. Rather, they believed that Moscow sought to create a Soviet-dominated Communist world order by a combination of subversion and intimidation. War, if it came, would come not by design but by accident. The Russians might misjudge the willingness of a Western nation to resist pressure; troops in contact in occupied areas might clash, or the success of Western European recovery might frighten Moscow into a premature attack.
