An attacker must also stockpile strategic supplies, raw materials, food, fuel, and machine tools for rebuilding vital industries. In fact, the most dramatic advanced measures would have to appear in open press reports. The Russian generals believe that only an extensive disinformation campaign could mask such preparations. If factories are to be moved, a benign explanation must be offered. If troops are mobilized, if security is to be increased at strategic facilities, a phony internal crisis must be presented as the root cause.
Nuclear war has two basic objectives.
The first objective is the elimination of the enemy's strategic weapons. The second objective is the preservation of friendly nuclear strength in order to blackmail the surviving countries. In Russian thinking, a nuclear war is not simply an exchange of nuclear strikes. Many countries would be invaded and occupied in the aftermath of a nuclear exchange. Lacking the firepower to strike back, these countries wouldn't dare to resist with conventional forces.