M. Voenizdat. 1970. 366 p. The print run is 15,000. Price 1 rub. 39 kopecks. The scientific community met with interest the publication of a new book by Vsevolod Mikhailovich Kulakov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Captain of the First rank. Unfortunately, this is his last work. Vsevolod Mikhailovich died in August last year. V. M. Kulakov headed the Research Department of the Institute of Military History of the USSR Ministry of Defense. He was a major expert on military history. He has written over 50 works in this field. He participated in the creation of the six-volume "History of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union 1941-1945", the collective work "Modern imperialist military Ideology", was the author of a number of publications on the history of foreign military intervention and the civil war in the USSR. Few works are devoted to the study of the military ideology of American imperialism in Soviet historiography. This topic is partially reflected, for example, in the books of G. Trofimenko, A. N. Yakovlev and a number of other authors. 1 V. M. Kulakov put this problem at the center of his research. Currently, there is an active militarization of science in the United States. Along with the process of subordinating science to the military-industrial complex, there are tendencies to transform it from a servant to an adviser, and sometimes even a partner of militarists and monopolists. A single military-industrial and scientific complex is being formed. More than 80% of American scientists and specialists are engaged in military research. Their writings develop views and principles that express the attitude of the monopolistic bourgeoisie to modern warfare and the methods of its conduct. "Factories of military thought"are being created at universities and colleges. In military ideology, the views of certain groups of the monopolistic bourgeoisie, which do not always completely coincide, and the struggle between them, find indirect expression. Of ... Read more