ABSTRACT
The achievements of socialist production and of Soviet science and technology have enabled to effect a veritable revolution in military affairs. The fundamental concrete tasks of the Armed Forces and the direction of military structuring in our country circumstances were distinctly and expressively laid down by our Supreme Commander-in-Chief Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev in his historical speech at the IV session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1960. The use of atomic and thermonuclear weapons, with unlimited possibilities for their delivery to any target in calculated minutes with the aid of rockets, permits the achievement of decisive military results in the shortest period of time at any distance and over enormous territory. Soviet military doctrine considers the most important, the main and paramount task of the Armed Forces to be: to be in constant readiness for the reliable repulse of a surprise attack of the enemy and to frustrate his criminal plans.
