Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968

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249 Index ABIGAIL plan, 218 Adenauer, Konrad, 9 Aldrich, Richard J., 3, 241, 242 Allied Commander Europe (ACE) Logistics Conference, 99 Allied Commander Europe Logistic Coordination Center (ACE-LCC), 103–4 Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT), 17, 27, 77, 102, 164 Allied Forces Northern Europe (AFNORTH), 9 Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH), 9 Allied Land Forces Central Europe (LANDCENT), 100, 161, 226 Amsterdam, 97 anti-Bolsheviks, Allied military support for, 76 Antwerp, 22, 95, 96 Army Information Digest, 135 Army Structure 3 (1970), 166 atomic demolition munitions (ADM), 26, 27–28, 64, 84, 162, 170, 226, 230, 241; main targets of, 168 Attlee, Clement R., 122 Austria, 121 BADGER’S LAIR training exercise, 65 Balkans, the, 132 Baltic Approaches Command, 185 Baltic Sea, 21 BATTLEROYALmilitaryexercise,77,223 Belgium, 2, 22, 36, 96, 140; Security Service, 69; I Corps, 26, 164 BELL HOOK military exercise, 137 Beobachter (observers), 83, 87 Bereitschaftspolizei (alert police), 185 BERKUT air defense system, 125–26 Berlin crises (1958, 1961), 6, 13–14, 87; increasing tensions due to, 14–15 Berlin Wall, 14, 61, 62, 87 Bevin, Ernest, 6 Bidault, Georges, 6 BIG LIFT deployment concept, 16, 85 Blake, George, 61 BLOW TORCH military exercise, 137 Bosnia, 243 BOUNCE BACK military exercise, 145–46 Bremen, 22, 95, 162, 182, 204, 206 British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), 23, 25, 26, 66, 77, 80, 95, 161, 218, 241, 242; and COMNORTHAG position, 56; CONGREVE plan, 205–7; defense plans for Germany, 203, 214–15; and disposition of British and colonial forces, 210 (map); human intelligence (HUMINT) collection service, 59; Intelligence Division (BGS [Int and Sy]), 59–60, 62; makeup of, 204; military weaknesses, 204–5; and nuclear weapons, 213–14; role of British I Corps, 207–8, 211, 213; and Soviet invasion contingency for HQ, 56–57; and UK garrison deployments (1954), 209 (map) 250 Index British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), military units of: I Corps, 164, 191, 192, 203, 207–8, 211, 213, 221; 2nd Infantry Division, 211; 6th Armoured Division, 211; 7th Armoured Division, 211, 221; 11th Armoured Division, 211; 225 Signals Squadron, 65 BRIXMIS mission, 62–63 Brussels Pact (1948), 5, 22 Bulgaria, 46 Bundeswehr, the (West German Army), 15, 24, 38, 57; artillery battalions of, 158; brigade structure of, 157; equipment of, 158; ground forces of (1963–1968), 157–58; growth of, 26, 157 Bundeswehr, the (West German Army), military units of: I Corps, 26, 164, 166, 167 (deployment map), 225, 230; III Corps, 168; 3rd Panzer Division, 190, 228, 230, 234; 7th Panzer Grenadier Division, 164; 11th Panzer Grenadier Division, 164, 166, 190; 33rd Panzer Brigade, 164 Burroughs, Ronnie, 68 BURYA command and staff exercise (1961), 33, 36, 41, 42 (map), 181, 194, 195, 241; planning for Central Europe, 36–39 Canada, 15, 67 CANUKUS countries (Canada, United Kingdom, and United States), 66–67 capitalism, assumed defeat of by socialism, 176–77 CARTE BLANCHE air exercise, 10, 140–41 Carter, Donald A., 3, 241 Cassels, James, 161 Center for Netherlands Studies and the German/Netherlands I Corps, 1 Central Army Group (CENTAG), 85, 161, 169, 214; Emergency Defense Plan (1-1960) of, 156 Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), 40, 46–47 Central European Pipeline System (CEPS), 98, 102 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 61, 68; assessment of the Warsaw Pact, 36 Central Sector, 1, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 66, 76, 81, 102, 157, 217–18 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 196 China, 15, 135; loss of to Communism, 7 Clarke, Bruce C., 149 Close, Robert, 28 Coastal Front, Polish, 36, 41, 182, 188, 189–90, 200 Cold War, the, 1, 3, 21, 85, 87–88, 123, 239, 243; battle history of, 156; the “Cold World War,” 156; intelligence priorities during, 57–58; U.S. expenses related to, 55 colonialism, 176 COMBINE military exercise, 135 COMINT (communications intelligence), 65–66, 67 Command and Control of the Armed Forces HDv 100/1 (TF-62), 160 commander, Land Forces Central Europe (COMLANDCENT), 99, 100, 160, 161, 170 commander, NORTHAG (COMNORTHAG), 58–59, 100, 171, 204, 214, 226, 228, 230, 234 commander-in-chief, Allied Forces Central Europe (CINCCENT), 160–61; and Central Europe EDP 1-63, 162; and Central Europe EDP 2-58 (1958), 161 Communism/Communists, 7, 79, 218 Communist Party of East Germany, 79 Corporal missile system (MGM-5), 64, 139 “Counter-Surprise Military Systems,” 58–59 COUNTERTHRUST military exercise, 223 Index 251 Crittenberger, Willis D...