NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda

<p>This book first published in 1990 is an incisive examination of NATO’s strategy for the defence of the central front – the concern that has lain at the heart of NATO since its formation. Politically the central front marked the post-war division of Europe into two competing blocs; militarily it has represented the area of greatest force concentration and greatest threat. As NATO’s strategic agenda changed with the end of the Cold War the central front remained a critical concern. This book analyses the structure strategy and doctrines of both East and West and examines the relationship of NATO strategy to conventional force doctrines.</p>