title: How Soviet Cold War Policies Fell Prey to the Temptations of Strategic Traps
abstract: The Cold War experience of the Soviet Union has brought about significant implications in terms contributing to the strategic thought. The Soviet strategic experience marked its place in history of strategic thought with its stress of disharmony between ideology and strategy. It indicated how a strategy under the yoke of an ideology may well impel a hegemonic power falling into strategic traps. The underlying cause of this fact was that the pre-eminence of ideological goals on the part of the So
journal: Ege Stratejik Araştırmalar Dergisi