Blueprints for battle [electronic resource] : planning for war in central Europe, 1948-1968 / edited by Jan Hoffenaar and Dieter Krüger ; English translation edited by David T. Zabecki.
Material type: TextSeries: Foreign military studies | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)ISBN:- 9780813136523
- 9780813139821
- Cold war
- Military history, Modern -- 20th century
- Military planning -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
- Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Military planning -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Warsaw Treaty Organization -- History
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- History -- 20th century
- Europe -- Defenses
- 355.02094/09045 23
- U155.E85 B54 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of abbreviations and common terms -- Introduction: the plans of the Warsaw Pact and NATO / Jan Hoffenaar and Dieter Krüger -- Strategic problems and the central sector, 1948-1968: an overview / Lawrence S. Kaplan -- Aims and realities: NATO's forward defense and the operational planning level at NORTHAG / Bruno Thoss -- Soviet and Warsaw Pact military strategy from Stalin to Brezhnev: the transformation from "strategic defense" to "unlimited nuclear war," 1945-1968 / Matthias Uhl -- Waiting to be kissed? NATO, NORTHAG, and intelligence / Richard J. Aldrich -- East German military intelligence for the Warsaw Pact in the central sector / Jan Hoffenaar -- Waste and confusion? NATO logistics from the Dutch perspective / Herman Roozenbeek -- The logistics system of the Soviet and Warsaw Pact armed forces in the 1950s and 1960s / Dimitri N. Filippovych -- Soviet Union military planning, 1948-1968 / Viktor Gavrilov -- War games in Europe: the U.S. Army experiments with atomic doctrine / Donald A. Carter -- 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 -- The German Democratic Republic / Torsten Diedrich -- The British Army of the Rhine and defense plans for Germany, 1945-1955 / Robert Evans -- The Dutch contribution to the defense of the central sector / Jan Hoffenaar -- Concluding remarks: warfare in the central sector / Gregory W. Pedlow.
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