Organization Versus Alliance: The Warsaw Pact in Retrospect and Prospect.

Abstract

This memorandum attempts to provide a wide-ranging, comparative, yet brief analysis of the Warsaw Pact's development over time. The author considers the Warsaw Treaty Organization in terms of two general categories of development: the external relationships of that organization, on the one hand, and its internal relationships, on the other. By external relationships, the author means the political-military posture that the Pact as a whole presents to the world outside the boundaries of its member states and that it presents, in particular, to NATO. By internal relationships, the author means the variety and extent of the political, military, and economic ties among Pact members but, primarily, the variety and extent of such ties between non-Soviet members of the Pact and the USSR. Comparisons between historical periods are made in terms of these categories. Changes and continuities from past to present to probable future are related to them as well. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 25, 1978
Accession Number
ADA062512

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  • Richard E. Darilek

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  • United States Army War College

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  • Agreements
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  • Anti-Tank Missiles
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  • Eastern Europe
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  • Foreign Policy
  • Guided Missiles
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
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  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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