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Surprise Attack

Surprise Attack Lessons for Defense Planning

Richard K. Betts, Brookings Institution Press 1982 c. 318pp.

1. Deterrence, Shock, and Defense

THE PAST

2. Sudden Attacks in World War II

3. Sudden Attacks in the Postwar Era

4. Why Surprise Succeeds, I: Operational Causes

5. Why Surprise Succeeds II: The Fog of Peace

THE FUTURE

6. The NATO Central Front, I: Politics

7. The NATO Central Front, II: Operations

8. Nuclear Surprise

9. Beyond The Central Front

CONCLUSIONS

10. Hedging Against Surprise

Index

Figure 6-1. Comparisions of Warsaw Pact and NATO Ground Forces, Central Front

Figure 6-2. Ratio of Soviet Forces ALone to Total NATO Forces

Figure 9-1. Sensitivity of Effective Intervention to Sealift and Warning

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