Strategy of Survival
Crozier, Brian
BOOK REVIEW Strategy of Survival Brian Crozier/Arlington House/$8.95 Philip Vander Elst Brian Crozier is well known for the caliber of his work in the field of international politics. His...
...D&tente" has only speeded up and reinforced this one-sided process...
...To doubt the legitimacy of Marxism-Leninism," says Mr...
...At worst, it preserved a secure environment for continuing (and unreciprocated) Soviet subversion all over the world which, combined with the internal decay of Western culture, resulted in a gradual but inexorable advance of Soviet hegemony...
...The latter justifies and facilitates the export of Soviet power...
...Crozier's program win general acceptance...
...Thus, Mr...
...Quoting Lenin and the 1924 Program of the Communist International, Mr...
...The number of Soviet ICBMs has also more than doubled since 1965, and the Soviet war machine is kept well oiled by a level of expenditure equivalent to 12-25 percent of the country's GNP, more than double the average for most developed Western nations...
...This shrinkage of the "free world" (which Crozier rightly prefers to call the "Target Area") has been accompanied by a relentless expansion of Soviet military power since 1945, an expansion which accelerated greatly after the Cuban missile crisis...
...One might be forgiven for believing that these facts speak for themselves, but in view of the confusion that prevails in so many minds regarding the character and goals of the Soviet regime, Mr...
...Crozier recommends: rearmament by the NATO powers...
...A relatively short book, Strategy of Survival is a compact history and analysis of the Cold War, and contains a shrewd assessment of Western policy towards the Soviet bloc...
...And the ideology must be exported not only because the export of it is part of the ideology itself, but so that the world can be made safe for Soviet Communism...
...So whatever the evidence, and however cynical its denial inevitably makes the ruling group, the basic tenets of the ideology must be constantly reaffirmed...
...Containment" at best only ensured a permanent stalemate in the balance of power between East and West...
...Crozier spells out the realities of the situation with unabashed clarity...
...Will Mr...
...Thus, from modest beginnings, the Soviet navy has developed into the largest (and one of the most technologically advanced) maritime forces in the world, with a huge offensive capability-both conventional and nuclear...
...These are: the extensive dependence of the Soviet economy on Western credits and technology...
...Between 1950 and 1977, the Western camp lost another thirteen countries to Communist or pro-Communist forces, and within the last few months, Afghanistan has joined the ever-growing list of captive nations...
...His most recent book, Strategy of Survival, will enhance his reputation as one of the most perceptive chroniclers of the Cold War since James Burnham...
...Our freedom ultimately hangs on the answer...
...Crozier, "would be to imperil the party's hold on power...
...the cessation of Western support for the Soviet economy and hence, indirectly, for Soviet military spending...
...and finally (but not least), the vulnerability of the Soviet ideocracy to truth...
...Brian Crozier's critique of "containment" (and "ditente") will be familiar to readers of Burnham and of the younger critics of Western feebleness like Robert Moss...
...and most important of all, the deliberate education of public opinion in both the realities of the present world conflict and the measures necessary to ensure Western survival...
...BOOK REVIEW Strategy of Survival Brian Crozier / Arlington House / $8.95 Philip Vander Elst in addition, China was lost to Mao...
...Crozier not only exposes the unchanging aggressive aims of Soviet Communism, but also explains how Communist ideology conceals Soviet imperialism beneath a cloak of spurious internationalism...
...Despite his pessimism regarding the present course of the "Third World War, " Mr...
...the ever-doubtful loyalty of the Eastern European satellites...
...These show that between 1939 and 1949, fifteen countries fell under Soviet domiination and, Philip Vander Elst is on the staff of the Centre for Policy Studies in London, England...
...the escalation of the ideological war against Communism through the use of new techniques in telecommunications...
...Crozier does not despair...
...the centrifugal pull of the nationalisms within the USSR...
...a concerted campaign against Sovietbacked terrorism through the creation of a permanent NATO "fire-fighting" force...
...Before embarking on his critique of "containment" and "ditente," Crozier documents the success of Soviet imperialism since 1939, with the help of some very revealing and disturbing maps...
...the Sino-Soviet conflict...
...He proposes (for general adoption throughout the nonCommunist world) a "new forward policy" designed to carry the war into the enemy's territory by exploiting his inherent weaknesses...
...Referring to the Cold War as the "Third World War" (which the West is losing), he defines the present conflict as a "unilateral war of expansion from the Soviet land mass" whose motivation is both ideological and imperialistic (in the old prerevolutionary sense...
Vol. 12 • January 1979 • No. 1
