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Is NATO Decisively Outnumbered?

Barry R. Posen

International Security Vol. 12, No. 4 (Spring 1988)

Once due credit is taken for NATO's greater relative efforts in command and logistics, and reasonable mobilization assumptions, NATO's ground force capabilities are roughly equal to those of the Warshaw Pact.