The Protracted Conflict

BRIAN CROZIER

IN THE UNRELENTING War Waged by the Soviet Union against the West, propaganda and disinformation play at least as important a part as weapons—perhaps more so, as weapons are for intimidation rather than for use. When the cold war was being fought on the Western as well as the Soviet side, the main Western countries—especially the United States and Britain—gave as good as they got. Indeed, their effort was qualitatively if not quantitatively superior to the Soviets’.