READING BETWEEN THE LINES

DOCID: 3928754 Reading Between the Lines: Methods of Analysis of Soviet Military Literature STATU TOR ILY EXE M~T The writings of Soviet military authors often say more than the obvious. SOVIETSECRECY:THEPROBLEM Probably since the first hieroglyphics were mked onto papyrus, military authors have been·beset by a fundamentally unresolvable conflict. On the one hand, propaganda and indoctrination ask that military information be spread widely to persuade and instruct.