Red Armour: An Examination of the Soviet Mobile Force Concept (1984) By Richard Simpkin
 
Red Armour, an examination of the Soviet Mobile Force concepts does pretty much what it says on the tin in that it provides, in its 12 essays, a thought-provoking and revealing analysis of Soviet Operational doctrine.  Unlike the Race to the Swift which looks at a variety of maneuver warfare concepts and extrapolates these into the future. This collection of his work focuses on Soviet operational concepts as they had evolved by the height of the Cold War in 1982-83.

The three parts of the book cover, resources procedures and concepts and each part contains four essays which  discuss at varying levels of detail the following topics:
 
Part 1 Resources
Manpower
Philosophy
Technology
Ground
 
Part 2 Procedures
Control and Support
Movement and Deployment
Obstacle Crossing
Parameters of Tank Force operations
 
Part 3 Concepts
The deep battle
The tank force concept
Soviet mobile operations
The NATO centre
 
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
253 Pages
In Good condition