THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

1. The enclosed Intelligence Information Special Report is part of a series now in preparation based on the SECRET USSR Ministry of Defense publication Collection of Articles of the Journal "Military Thought". This article presents critical comments on a previous article on the subject, taking particular issue with theoperational disposition of air forces and removal of aircraft to dispersal,airfields. The author also criticizes the previous article's presentation of air support, stating this concept as a specific group of tasks to be carried out with conventional weapons in cooperation with ground forces. IHe agrees that air defense should have one overall commander for aviation and surface-to-air missiles and that the air army commander is in the best position to assume this function and reallocate air forces as required. This article appeared in Issue No. 1 (71) for 1964.