War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War : Threat Perceptions in the East and West, Paperback / softback Book

War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War : Threat Perceptions in the East and West Paperback / softback

Edited by Vojtech Mastny, Sven S. (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Oslo, Norway) Holtsmark, Andreas Wenger

Part of the CSS Studies in Security and International Relations series

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This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the post-Cold War perspective. Based on previously unknown archival evidence from both East and West, the twelve essays in the book focus on the potential European battlefield rather than the strategic competition between the superpowers.

They present conclusions about the nature of the Soviet threat that could previously only be speculated about and analyze the interaction between military matters and politics in the alliance management on both sides, with implications for the present crisis of the Western alliance. This new book will be of much interest for students of the Cold War, strategic history and international relations history, as well as all military colleges.

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