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Part 1 Nato, nuclear weapons and conventional defence: flexibleresponse; problems with nuclear reliance; raising with the nuclearthreshold; minimum deterrence; common security; conclusion. Part 2NATO'S central front: the political context; the geography of thecentral front; NATO - organization and deployment; the WTO -organization and deployment; conclusion. Part 3 the military balance:bean counting; measuring force effectiveness; analysing combatdynamics; conclusion. Part 4 Soviet military doctrine: the greatpatriotic war; Stalin and the nuclear age; the 'Revolution in MilitaryAffairs'; developing a conventional variant; the Orgarkov Revolution;Gorbachev and 'New Thinking'; conclusion. Part 5 NATO operationaldoctrine: airland battle and US Army doctrine; defending NothernGermany - the British-NORTHAG concept of operations; follow-on forcesattack (FOFA); conclusion. Part 6 non-offensive defence: thedevelopment of non-offensive defence; the Spider and the Web - the SASmodel; characteristics of non-offensive defence; criticisms ofnon-offensive defence.