Where the Soviet Navy sat in military priorities

A viewer proposes a Soviet hierarchy in which strategic nuclear forces and the Army ranked highest, the Air Force followed, and the Navy sat lower, especially during the war in Afghanistan. In that reading, ballistic missile submarines still mattered as an added retaliatory problem for the United States and a hedge against a decapitation strike. The response stops short of adopting every part of the ranking but agrees that the Soviet Navy moved around within the state's priorities. This hierarchy remains an interpretation to test against the Gorshkov-era record rather than a settled fact.