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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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CONTENTS Page PREFACE SCOPE NOTE NOTE ON THE EVIDENCE 3 KEY JUDGMENTS 5 ISSUES 17 CHAPTER 1. WARSAW PACT POLICY AND DOCTRINE FOR THEATER WARFARE I-1 A. General Considerations I-I B. Theater Nuclear Warfare I-3 C. Chemical Warfare I-7 D. Biological Warfare I-8 E. Electronic Warfare I-9 F. Soviet Views of NATO's Military Capabilities ................. 1-9 C. Implications for Pact Forces I-10 CHAPTER II. WARSAW PACT FORCES FOR THEATER WARFARE ............................ II- A. Warsaw Pact Ground Forces I-1 Manpower I-I1 Equipment . I-1 Warsaw Pact Ground Force Divisions I......................-10 Airborne Forces 1........................................- 12 Special Operations Units I1-13 Personnel, Training, and Leadership 11-13 Ready Reserves II-15 B. Warsaw Pact Air Forces I1-15 Tactical Air Forces II-16 Military Transport Aviation II-27 NSWP National Air Defense Forces 11-27 C. Warsaw Pact General Purpose Naval Forces I1-27 Force Composition and Readiness 11-28 Manpower, Personnel, and Training II-31 Major Wartime Tasks .I-32 Antiwarship Capabilities I1-32 Antisubmarine Warfare Capabilities II-39 Capabilities for Exercising Sea Control in the Sea Approaches to the Soviet Union ...................................... I1-41 Capabilities for Exercising Sea Denial in NATO's Sea Lines of Communication 11-41 Amphibious Capabilities . 11-44 V Top ~
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 201 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.