War plans and alliances in the Cold War : threat perceptions in the East and West / edited by Vojtech Mastny, Sven G. Holtsmark, and Andreas Wenger
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Mastny, Vojtech, 1936-, Holtsmark, Sven G., and Wenger, Andreas
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Imagining war in Europe : Soviet strategic planning / Vojtech Mastny -- Storming on to Paris : the 1961 Buria exercise and the planned solution of the Berlin crisis / Matthias Uhl -- War plans from Stalin to Brezhnev : the Czechoslovak pivot / Petr Luňák -- The Warsaw Pact's special target : planning the seizure of Denmark / Frede P. Jensen -- "Is this the best they can do?" : Henry Kissinger and the US quest for limited nuclear options, 1969-75 / William Burr -- Silent allies and hostile neutrals : nonaligned states in the Cold War / Wilhelm Agrell -- The politics of military planning : evolution of NATO's strategy / Andreas Wenger -- Alliance of democracies and nuclear deterrence / Beatrice Heuser -- Securing small-state interests : Norway in NATO / Kjell Inge Bjerga and Kjetil Skogrand -- How strong was the "weakest link"? : Danish security policy reconsidered / Jonathan Søborg Agger and Trine Engholm Michelsen -- "To defend or not to defend" : drawing the line in the Netherlands / Jan Hoffenaar -- McNamara, Vietnam, and the defense of Europe / Lawrence S. Kaplan.
- Summary
- 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 m.
- Subject(s)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization—Military policy
- Warsaw Treaty Organization—Military policy
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Warsaw Treaty Organization
- Organisation des Warschauer Vertrages
- NATO
- Military planning—Europe
- Military planning—North America
- Cold War
- Planification militaire—Europe
- Planification militaire—Amérique du Nord
- Guerre froide
- HISTORY—Military—Other
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING—Military Science
- OTAN
- Pacte de Varsovie
- Histoire
- Military planning
- Military policy
- Kriegsvorbereitung
- Ost-West-Konflikt
- Bündnispolitik
- Europe
- North America
- Europa
- USA
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- ISBN
- 9781136011825 (electronic bk.)
113601182X (electronic bk.)
0203390202
9780203390207
1299287271
9781299287273
9780415390613
0415390613
9780415395649
041539564X - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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