War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War

Threat Perceptions in the East and West

Author(s): Vojtech Mastny, Matthias Uhl, Petr Lunak, Frede Jensen, William Burr, Wilhelm Agrell, Andreas Wenger, Beatrice Heuser, Kjell Inge Bierga, Kjetil Skogrand, Jonathan Søborg Agger, Trine Engholm Michelsen, Jan Hoffenaar, Lawrence Kaplan
Editor(s): Vojtech Mastny, Sven Holtsmark, Andreas Wenger
Series: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Place: London, New York

This 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.

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