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Contents Foreword vii David T. Zabecki Preface xi Dieter Krüger A Note on the English Edition xxxiii List of Abbreviations and Common Terms xxxv Introduction: The Plans of the Warsaw Pact and NATO 1 Jan Hoffenaar and Dieter Krüger 1. Strategic Problems and the Central Sector, 1948–1968: An Overview 5 Lawrence S. Kaplan 2. Aims and Realities: NATO’s Forward Defense and the Operational Planning Level at NORTHAG 21 Bruno Thoss 3. Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Strategy from Stalin to Brezhnev: The Transformation from “Strategic Defense” to “Unlimited Nuclear War,” 1945–1968 33 Matthias Uhl 4. Waiting to Be Kissed? NATO, NORTHAG, and Intelligence 55 Richard J. Aldrich 5. East German Military Intelligence for the Warsaw Pact in the Central Sector 75 Jan Hoffenaar 6. Waste and Confusion? NATO Logistics from the Dutch Perspective 93 Herman Roozenbeek 7. The Logistics System of the Soviet and Warsaw Pact Armed Forces in the 1950s and 1960s 109 Dimitri N. Filippovych 8. Soviet Union Military Planning, 1948–1968 121 Viktor Gavrilov 9. War Games in Europe: The U.S. Army Experiments with Atomic Doctrine 131 Donald A. Carter 10. Fighting for the Heart of Germany: German I Corps and NATO’s Plans for the Defense of the North German Plain in the 1960s 155 Helmut Hammerich 11. The German Democratic Republic 175 Torsten Diedrich 12. The British Army of the Rhine and Defense Plans for Germany, 1945–1955 203 Robert Evans 13. The Dutch Contribution to the Defense of the Central Sector 217 Jan Hoffenaar 14. Concluding Remarks: Warfare in the Central Sector 239 Gregory W. Pedlow List of Contributors 245 Index 249 ...

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