TY  - BOOK
AU  - Close R.
TI  - Europe without defense?: 48 Hours that Could Change the Face of the World
SN  - 008023108X
PY  - 1979///
CY  - New York, Oxford, Toronto, Sydney
PB  - Pergamon Press
KW  - 355 Військова справа загалом
N2  - General Close argues convincingly that unless NANO members recognize and act uponthe fact of growing Soviet military superiority, Warsaw Pact forces could overrun Germany east of the Rhine within 48 hours. The maintenance of peace for nearly 30 years has been NATOs greatest success, yet General Close believes that recent evidence supports his warning that NATO forces are no longer a credible deterrent against a Soviet blitzkrieg in Western Europe, especially given the parity of U.S. and Soviet nuclear forces
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