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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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Top ec D. Effectiveness of Pact Command and Control 28. The Pact's command and control system ap- pears adequate to alert forces and control mobilization and to control combat operations. The first-echelon Central Front (Soviet Group of Forces in East Ger- many) and Southwestern Front (Czechoslovak and Soviet forces in Czechoslovakia) could deploy and activate their command and control network in 24 to 48 hours. In a rapidly developing crisis, deploying and activating the Pact's entire wartime command and control system would require about a week. 29.. We believe that the Pact's command and con- trol system for theater operations has important strengths: - Soviet dominance of the Pact allows the USSR to control almost all aspects of Pact operations. - The Pact has a standardized command and control doctrine. - The Pact has a significant degree of flexibility in the resubordination of ground armies and divi- sions from one command to another, including resubordination of these units from one nation to the command of another. - Each echelon of command has the capability to control both its immediate and second-echelon - The Pact command and control system is charac- terized by redundancy, hardening, mobility, and III-8 ToSeL
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