Fulda Gap: Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances, which brings together both scholars and veterans, moves deftly from the strategic context to the on-the-ground reality of serving at the front lines of a cold war that did not erupt (at least there) for some four decades. These essays and recollections illustrate what was real and what was imagined about the Soviet threat, the NATO response, and vice versa. Chief among the particular delights are insights into Soviet and East German planning and force structure-as well as into the American experience at the border-and new evidence in advancing the historical narrative well into the 1970s and 1980s. Above all, Fulda Gap demonstrates how much we can gain from situating a specific place in its context and by placing the operational level at the heart of military history. -- Ingo Trauschweizer, Ohio University The Fulda Gap remains a catch word for the dilemma of Cold War deterrence in the crises of forward defense at the level below the Single Integrated Operational Plan and the Indochina War. The authors in this volume comprise veterans as well as scholars of the US Army, the Bundeswehr, the Soviet Group of Forces in Germany, and the East German Nationale Volksarmee as found in no comparable work. My praise of this work arises from my own personal experience of this task in the 1980s, my advanced study and graduate instruction in this material in the US and Central Europe ever since, and my active participation today in the reconstitution of NATO's deterrence posture in an unsettled Europe. Scholars will find what they need here, as will those in the here and now in search of the context of an old nightmare that has reappeared in the twenty-first century. -- Donald Abenheim, Naval Postgraduate School
In the course of the Cold War, the term "Fulda Gap" was used regularly. In this region between Vogelsberg, Rhon and Spessart Mountains the direct vicinity of the Rhein-Main region, the GDR/Warsaw Pact territory extended deep into West Germany forming the so called "Thuringian Balcony." The region around Fulda would have become one of the main attack routes of Warsaw Pact troops in case of a military conflict between the blocs. What would have happened there militarily? What role did the region play in the strategical and tactical planning of NATO and Warsaw Pact? What were the operative plans of the 8th Soviet Guards Army and the 11th ACR? Which significance hat OP Alpha? These and other issues are the topics of this anthology which links the history of the Cold War on a local dimension with a European and global perspective.
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