The Ukraine war has many lessons for NATO, but one of the key lessons is the need to rethink the linkage between its force planning and its defense ... national level – and by absorbing former Warsaw ...

After 1945 we became an unwilling part of the Soviet bloc, and thus also of the Warsaw Pact ... of the defense budget on force development—more than double the NATO requirement.

With Western air dominance no longer guaranteed, other NATO ... Warsaw Pact game of hide-and-seek involving fighter jets, and for neutral Sweden—which had a disproportionately large air force ...

and at a time when NATO force planning had at least some aspects of effective force planning. Since the early 1990s, such efforts have become far less effective and been shaped by the absorption of ...

When it was signed, the CFE envisaged weapons limits for the Warsaw Pact and NATO, but the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist shortly after it was signed. Unsuccessful attempts were made to renegotiate ...

To truly understand the geopolitics of this current conflict is to understand the long and brutal history of the Soviet Union, the creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.Feb. 19, 2023 ...

With NATO it has been the other way around. For 42 years the alliance prepared for conventional and nuclear war with the Soviet Union and its allies. In 1991 the Warsaw Pact fell apart and the ...

Signed in 1990, just a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the treaty prevented both NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact from building up a large number of forces and launching a quick ...