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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: COLD WAR SECURITY STUDIES

Volume 30

NATOS CHANGING STRATEGIC AGENDA

First published in 1990 by Unwin Hyman Ltd

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1990 Colin McInnes

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NATOs Changing Strategic Agenda

THE CONVENTIONAL DEFENCE OF CENTRAL EUROPE

Colin Mclnnes

Colin Mclnnes 1990

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First published in 1990

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Mclnnes, Colin, 1960

NATOs changing strategic agenda: the conventional

defence of Central Europe.

1. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Strategy

I. Title

355.031091821

ISBN 004445211X

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Applied for

Typeset in 10/11 point Bembo

Printed by Billing and Sons Ltd, London and Worcester

For Sally

From now on Im thinking only of me.

Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.

Then, said Yossarian, Id certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldnt I?

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Contents

2 The central front

The political context

The geography of the central front

NATO : organization and deployment

The WTO : organization and deployment

Conclusion

3 The balance of forces

Bean counting

Measuring force effectiveness

Analysing combat dynamics

Conclusion

4 Soviet military doctrine

The Great Patriotic War

Stalin and the nuclear age

The revolution in military affairs

Developing a conventional variant

The Ogarkov revolution

Gorbachev and new thinking

Conclusion

5 NATO operational doctrine

AirLand Battle and US army doctrine

Defending northern Germany: the British- NORTHAG concept of operations

Follow-on forces attack ( FOFA )

Conclusion

6 Non-offensive defence

The development of non-offensive defence

The spider and the web: the SAS model

Characteristics of non-offensive defence

Criticisms of non-offensive defence

Conclusion

1. 2 The central front
   1. The political context
   2. The geography of the central front
   3. NATO: organization and deployment
   4. The WTO: organization and deployment
   5. Conclusion
2. 3 The balance of forces
   1. Bean counting
   2. Measuring force effectiveness
   3. Analysing combat dynamics
   4. Conclusion
3. 4 Soviet military doctrine
   1. The Great Patriotic War
   2. Stalin and the nuclear age
   3. The revolution in military affairs
   4. Developing a conventional variant
   5. The Ogarkov revolution
   6. Gorbachev and new thinking
   7. Conclusion
4. 5 NATO operational doctrine
   1. AirLand Battle and US army doctrine
   2. Defending northern Germany: the British-NORTHAG concept of operations
   3. Follow-on forces attack (FOFA)
   4. Conclusion
5. 6 Non-offensive defence
   1. The development of non-offensive defence
   2. The spider and the web: the SAS model
   3. Characteristics of non-offensive defence
   4. Criticisms of non-offensive defence
   5. Conclusion

1. viii

Guide

Special thanks are due to the officers and officials of the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO and SHAPE who spared the time to talk to me but who cannot be mentioned by name, and to Lt. Col. Roger Smith and the staff of the Tactical Doctrine Retrieval Centre, Army Staff College, Camberley, for their willing help in tracking down source material. I would also like to thank Ken Booth and David Gates for their advice at various stages, and to Gary Sheffield who prompted the research in the first place. Finally I would like to tnank Susan Davies and Marian Davies for their word processing skills, and Pete Wright for his help and advice with computers.

ADE	Armoured Division Equivalent
AFNORTH	Allied Forces Northern Europe (NATO)
AFSOUTH	Allied Forces South (NATO)
ATACMS	Army Tactical Missile System (NATO)
ATAF	Allied Tactical Air Force (NATO)
ATGM	Anti-tank Guided Munition
CENTAG	Central Army Group (NATO)
C3	Command, Control and Communications
C3I	Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence
CAS	Close Air Support
CFE	Conventional Forces in Europe
CGF	Central Group of Forces (WTO)
DIVAD	Divisonal Army Defence Gun (US)
ERA	Explosive Reactive Armour
ET	Emerging Technology
FEBA	Forward Edge of the Battle Area
FIBUA	Fighting In Built Up Areas
FLET	Forward Line of Enemy Troops

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