ABSTRACT
Marshal Crechko was one of the most influential figures in the expansion of the Soviet Armed Forces. Approximately 45,000 tanks provide the primary strike power of the Soviet Ground Forces. The Armed Forces of the Soviet State is one of the most authoritative books published in the 1970s and is used frequently as a source by other Soviet writers. Accordingly, military doctrine is understood to be an officially accepted system of views in a given state and in its Armed Forces on the nature of war and methods of conducting it and on preparation of the country and army for war. The theoretical basis of Soviet military doctrine consists of the following: Marxism-Leninism, military science, and, to a certain degree, branches of social, natural, and technical sciences related to the preparation and waging of armed struggle as well as to other forms of struggle.
