ABSTRACT
The Soviet military posture in the 1980s suggests that goals for the Armed Forces generally have been met. The Soviet state will see to it that its Armed Forces are powerful, that they have the most up-to-date means of defending the country—atomic and thermonuclear weapons, rockets of every range, and that they keep all types of military equipment and all weapons up to standard. The Party will work indefatigably to train Army and Navy officers and political personnel fully devoted to the communist cause and recruited among the finest representatives of the Soviet people. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union regards the defense of the socialist motherland, and the strengthening of the defense potential of the U.S.S.R., of the might of the Soviet Armed Forces, as a sacred duty of the Party and the Soviet people as a whole, as a most important function of the socialist state.
