What is it about?
As Warsaw Pact secret and top secret documents became available in East Germany to scholars after the end of the Cold War we can now establish that in the 1970s and early 1908s, we can state categorically that Moscow only rehearsed offensive operations (marching to the Channel in a few days), and no defensive operations in this period.
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Why is it important?
Based on original Warsaw Pact secret and top secret archives, this solves many puzzles, including the Soviet (Brezhnev) pledge not to be the first to use nuclear weapons: this was in fact practised Warsaw Pact exercises as launch-on-warning! The article furnishes evidence that NATO claims that the Warsaw Pact was worryingly offensive in all its postures were fully founded.
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This page is a summary of: Warsaw pact military doctrines in the 1970s and 1980s: Findings in the East German archives, Comparative Strategy, October 1993, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01495939308402943.
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