Blueprints for battle
Subtitle: planning for war in central Europe, 1948-1968
By: edited by Jan Hoffenaar and Dieter Krüger ; English translation edited by David T. Zabecki
Contributors: Germany. Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt
Series: Foreign military studies
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813136516; 9780813136523; 9780813139821
Subjects: Military planning; Cold war; Defenses; Modern Military history; Warsaw Treaty Organization; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of abbreviations and common terms; title: Introduction: the plans of the Warsaw Pact and NATO / Jan Hoffenaar and Dieter Krüger; title: Strategic problems and the central sector, 1948-1968: an overview / Lawrence S. Kaplan; title: Aims and realities: NATO's forward defense and the operational planning level at NORTHAG / Bruno Thoss; title: Soviet and Warsaw Pact military strategy from Stalin to Brezhnev: the transformation from "strategic defense" to "unlimited nuclear war," 1945-1968 / Matthias Uhl; title: Waiting to be kissed? NATO, NORTHAG, and intelligence / Richard J. Aldrich; title: East German military intelligence for the Warsaw Pact in the central sector / Jan Hoffenaar; title: Waste and confusion? NATO logistics from the Dutch perspective / Herman Roozenbeek; title: The logistics system of the Soviet and Warsaw Pact armed forces in the 1950s and 1960s / Dimitri N. Filippovych; title: Soviet Union military planning, 1948-1968 / Viktor Gavrilov; title: War games in Europe: the U.S. Army experiments with atomic doctrine / Donald A. Carter; title: Fighting for the heart of Germany: German I Corps and NATO's plans for the defense of the north German plain in the 1960s / Helmut Hammerich; title: The German Democratic Republic / Torsten Diedrich; title: The British Army of the Rhine and defense plans for Germany, 1945-1955 / Robert Evans; title: The Dutch contribution to the defense of the central sector / Jan Hoffenaar; title: Concluding remarks: warfare in the central sector / Gregory W. Pedlow.