U.S. tactics.
Kiser, a research consultant in Soviet affairs, attacks the basic prem- ise of Huntington's linkage proposal-the presumed U.S. technological superiority over the Russians. (U.S. engineering firms, he says, have been buying Soviet pipe welding technology superior to anything in the West.) Russia's technological "unevenness," he says, needs to be better understood if the "technology gap" is to be more than a self-deceiving
U.S. political slogan.
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