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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: COLD WAR SECURITY STUDIES

Volume 48

THE SOVIET FAR EAST MILITARY BUILDUP

First published in 1986 by Croom Helm Ltd

This edition first published in 2021

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THE SOVIETFAR EASTMILITARY BUILDUP

Nuclear Dilemmas and Asian Security

Edited by
RICHARD H. SOLOMON
The Rand Corporation
MASATAKA KOSAKA
Kyoto University

Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row,

Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AT

Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd, Suite 4, 6th Floor,

6476 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

The Soviet Far East Military Buildup: Nuclear

Dilemmas and Asian Security. (A SeCAP

Publication)

1. Deployment (strategy) 2. Soviet Union-

Military policy 3.East AsiaHistory, military

I. Solomon, Richard H. II. Kosaka, Masataka

III. Series

355.2'0947 UA770

ISBN 0-7099-4457-8

Copyright1986 by Auburn House Publishing Company

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Auburn House Publishing Company.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

The Soviet Far East military buildup.

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. East AsiaNational securityAddresses,

essays, lectures. 2. Soviet UnionMilitary relations

East AsiaAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. East Asia

Military relationsSoviet UnionAddresses, essays,

lectures. 4. Soviet UnionMilitary policyAddresses,

essays, lectures. I. Solomon, jRichard H., 1937-

II. Kosaka, Masataka, 1934-

UA830.S69 1986355'.0330585-30664

ISBN 0-86569-140-1

Printed in the United States of America

This volume is dedicated to Dr. Masamichi Inoki, distinguished educator, scholar, and strategic thinker who has made a singular contribution as founder and president of the Research Institute for Peace and Security and as Chairman of the Japanese organizing committee of the Security Conference on Asia and the Pacific (SeCAP).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors want to express their appreciation for the invaluable support and assistance provided by a number of institutions and individuals in the publication of this volume.

Financial support for the April 1984 SeCAP conference on Reducing Nuclear Threats in Asia, which was the initial source of the papers in this volume, was provided by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S.-Japan Foundation.

In preparing the manuscript, Brigadier (ret.) Kenneth Hunt provided timely and important editorial assistance. Ms. Dorothy Diamond, Secretary of SeCAP/U.S., played the primary role in organizing and producing the manuscript. The authors are particularly indebted to her and her associate Pamela Christensen for invaluable care in preparation of the manuscript, and Patricia Wood for logistical support. They are also indebted to Anna Sun Wynston and Mary Yanokawa for research assistance and additional logistical support.

Major support was provided SeCAP/Japan, in coordinating with the U.S. editorial and production group, in producing the Japanese-language version of this volume by Seiichiro Onishi, Executive Director, Research Institute for Peace and Security, Professor Masashi Nishihara, National Defense Academy, and Akihiko Tanaka, also of the Research Institute for Peace and Security. This version of the book has also been published by Ningen-no-Kagaku Sha.

PREFACE

In 1978 a group of American and Japanese specialists in defense and foreign policy issues convened in Honolulu to discuss ways of improving communication between the two countries on matters affecting their shared security interests. The result of their deliberations was the formation of SeCAPthe Security Conference on Asia and the Pacific. The culmination of this first phase of SeCAP was publication of a joint policy statement, The U.S.Japan Relationship in the 1980s: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities (January 1983), which assessed major issues affecting the future of the relationship. This statement was presented to senior officials in both governments just prior to Prime Minister Nakasones meeting with President Reagan in Washington in January 1983.

* In Japan, SeCAP is organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS).

The SeCAP publications are listed on p. xiv.

During 1984, after conclusion of the initial series of SeCAP conferences and publications, the organizers decided to expand the scope of the Japanese-American dialogue to include defense and foreign policy specialists from a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and to address one of the major security problems jointly facing themthe growing nuclearization of the Soviet military presence in the Far East. Consequently, SeCAP convened a workshop on the subject ofReducing Nuclear Threats in Asia in San Diego, California, that brought together specialists from the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Australia, England, and the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as from Japan and the United States.

This volume is an outgrowth of the San Diego conference. The issue of the growing Soviet nuclear presence in Asiaespecially Moscows deployment of SS-20 intermediate-rangetheater missiles and long-range Backfire bomberswas viewed as sufficiently important to warrant publication of this unique collection of analytical papers by a multinational group of defense and foreign policy experts. At a time when the SS-20 issue and Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) modernization is being widely discussed among American and NATO defense experts, and when public anxiety about the spread of nuclear weapons is especially intense, we believe it is both timely and important to make this contribution to a more informed and reasoned debate on the INF issue as it affects allied and friendly states in the Asia-Pacific regionespecially those that share concern with the growing Soviet nuclear threat to regional security.

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