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Artillery Unit
Author_Thomas M. Forster
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Cold War
Cold War military education
Defence Law
East German armed forces structure
East German domestic policies
East German's army
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Frontier Troops
GDR Authority
GDR Citizen
GDR Government
GDR Television
GDR's Border
GDR’s Border
German Frontier Police
Main Political Administration
military sociology
Motorized Infantry Divisions
National Committee
National Defence Council
national defence economics
NATO Base
NVA Officer
NVA Unit
People's Navy
People’s Navy
political control mechanisms
Pre-military Training
SED Central Committee
SED Leader
SED Member
SED Official
SED Party
socialist indoctrination
Socialist military education
Soviet Bloc strategic planning
Warsaw Pact strategy
West Germany
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367609771
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book, first published in 1980, provides a detailed analysis of the East German army in the last decade of the Cold War. It examines the capabilities of the main force, after the Soviet army, in the Soviet Bloc, and shows how it depended on more things than purely military factors and national policies. It focuses the army as part of a society that had been comprehensively militarized through ‘socialist military education’, and shows that it was closely tied to the Soviet army, with no military doctrine of its own. In this way, this book provides an analysis of not just East German domestic policies, over which its army held great sway, but also of Soviet Bloc strategic planning for conflict in Western Europe.
Thomas M. Forster
