Four weeks into the campaign, the Germans realized they had grossly underestimated Soviet strength.
Then, there were exaggerated fears of Soviet strength.
In his first major assignment he joined a team of analysts who drew up a dire, and some said, exaggerated analysis of Soviet military strength.
The reduction of nuclear forces in Europe must be accompanied by efforts to match Soviet armored strength, they argue.
Even now, internal pressures are sapping Soviet military strength.
The book is widely used as a reference book on Soviet military strength.
The decline of Soviet economic strength was simply the handwriting on the wall for his own country.
If not, the only decent course would be to withdraw the ships and to cede the gulf to Soviet strength.
The data, it is said, fall broadly within previous American estimates of Soviet strength.
The only argument of any weight is that the treaty leaves Europe vulnerable to Soviet conventional strength.