ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1984
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
Oblast: Vojnostručna literatura

SV 5
60116) NATO under Attack , Why the Western Alliance Can Fight Outnumbered and Win in Central Europe Without Nuclear Weapons
Authors : F. W. Von Mellenthin,R. H. S. Stolfi,E. Sobik
Published by Duke University Press Durham North Carolina, 1984
This controversial book charges that military analysts, in failing to recognize important strengths of the NATO armed forces and equally important Soviet weaknesses, have inaccurately and pessimistically portrayed the military balance of forces in Central Europe as favoring the Warsaw Pact. This assessment has led observers to the mistaken conclusion that NATO forces are inadequate to deter war, that they would be defeated in a conventional armed conflict, and that this imbalance must be corrected by the increased deployment of tactical nuclear weapons.

NATO under Attack challenges all these conclusions by questioning the perception on which they are based, as well as the assumption that nuclear weapons would need to be employed to defend Western Europe against a War- saw Pact invasion. The authors base their claim on a detailed analysis of his- torical armed confrontations involving the principal European powers, and on a study, grounded in the Soviet military literature, of the command style of Soviet armed forces.

F. W. von Mellenthin, who was a member of the General Staff Office, rose to the rank of Major General in the German army by the end of World War II.

R. H. S. Stolfi is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

E. Sobik is a retired Colonel in the West German army who served most recently as Chief Intelligence Officer for NATO`s Central Army Group in the Netherlands
Ex library copy, paperback, size 15,5 x 23,5 cm , 161 pages , small damage on the inside of the cover