NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda: The Conventional Defence of Central Europe

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Routledge, 2021 M01 26 - 222 páginas

This book, first published in 1990, is an incisive examination of NATO’s strategy for the defence of the central front – the concern that has lain at the heart of NATO since its formation. Politically, the central front marked the post-war division of Europe into two competing blocs; militarily, it has represented the area of greatest force concentration and greatest threat. As NATO’s strategic agenda changed with the end of the Cold War, the central front remained a critical concern. This book analyses the structure, strategy and doctrines of both East and West, and examines the relationship of NATO strategy to conventional force doctrines.

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1 NATO nuclear weapons and conventional defence
1
2 The central front
31
3 The balance of forces
59
4 Soviet military doctrine
85
5 NATO operational doctrine
116
6 Nonoffensive defence
163
Conclusion
185
Bibliography
187
Index
199

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Colin McInnes

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