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This is Volume II of National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-79, Warsaw Pact Forces Opposite NATO, issued by the Director of Central Intelligence and dated January 1979. The National Foreign Intelligence Board concurred with it. It was the first comprehensive estimate of Pact forces facing NATO since 1971. It covers Pact doctrine, the ground, air, naval, nuclear and chemical forces, command and control, and campaign plans for war in Europe. It judges that Central Europe would be the decisive arena, and it lists Pact weaknesses in pilot training and antisubmarine warfare. The document contains no UFO material.
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National Control of Warsaw Pact Forces in Peacetime Figure Ill-1 East European Country S USSR . . a. There are considerable differences in how East European c. Some have separate air and air defense commands; some have defense miniatries are organized, air armies or corps. b. Some do not have Ground Forces headquarters; some have d. Not all have naval commands. Military Districts or Regions that became armies; some have e. The Soviet Air Force (SAF) sometimes exercises centralized armies subordinate to a Military District, control of tactical air armies from SAF headquarters or from SAF operations groups deployed to theater commands. 579032 en co 111-2 ~T a~-ret-
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