Warsaw Pact: Difference between revisions

For most of the [[Cold War]], the conventional military balance in Europe was in favor of the Warsaw Pact from the 1950s to the late 1980s, a imbalance which was off-set by NATO's nuclear superiority until the Soviets [[Mnogo Nukes|achieved rough parity]] in the late-60s. From the mid-80s on, the introduction of various emerging "information age" technologies for military use swung the balance to the West. The plans for [[World War Three]] were to go on the offensive immediately, in case of attack. The [[Warsaw Pact]] ''never'' planned to strike first. Neither did NATO for that matter. This meant that a Third World War could only have been started by accident. But neither side knew this, and often assumed that the other was preparing to strike first.

 

 

A lot of works called into question the reliability of the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members in an offensive war against NATO. The general answer would be as long as the Soviets were successful, the loyalty of the Warsaw Pact nations would certainly be assured. Even then, the Soviets would had to take some measures to avoid the Pact from unreliability, like not having East Germans fight West Germans, having Poles fight British or American troops, and using a Soviet formation in between two Pact armies.

 

== [[Film]] ==

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'', bar a small appearance from GDR forces pre-war, the non-Soviet forces are ignored.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==