War plans and alliances in the Cold War : threat perceptions in the East and West [1. publ. ed.] 9780415390613, 0415390613, 9780415395649, 041539564X

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War plans and alliances in the Cold War : threat perceptions in the East and West [1. publ. ed.]
 9780415390613, 0415390613, 9780415395649, 041539564X

Table of contents :
1. Imagining War in Europe: Soviet Strategic Planning 2. Storming on to Paris: The 1961 "Buria" Exercise and the Planned Solution of the Berlin Crisis 3. War Plans under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Czechoslovak Pivot 4. The Warsaw Pact's Special Target: Planning the Seizure of Denmark 5. The Other Side of Detente: US Quest for Limited Nuclear Options, 1969-1974 6. Silent Allies and Hostile Neutrals: Nonaligned States in the Cold War 7. Andreas Wenger, The Politics of Military Planning: Evolution of NATO's Strategy 8. Beatrice Heuser, Alliance of Democracies and Nuclear Deterrence 9. Securing Small-State Interests: Norway in NATO 10. How Strong Was the "Weakest Link"? Danish Security Policy Reconsidered 11. To Defend or Not to Defend: Drawing the Line in the Netherlands 12. Arrogant and Unilateralist: McNamara, Vietnam, and the Defense of Europe

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