Fulda Gap

Foreword, Gordon R. Sullivan
Introduction, Dieter Krüger and Volker Bausch
Translator’s Note, David R. Dorondo
Chapter 1: Fulda Gap: A Flashpoint of the Cold War between Myth and Reality, Helmut H. Hammerich
Chapter 2: The Eighth Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Fulda Gap, Matthias Uhl
Chapter 3: The Strategic and Operational Considerations of NATO in Europe since the 1970s, Helge Hansen
Chapter 4: The Development of the Military Conceptions of the Warsaw Pact in the Last Two Decades of the East–West Conflict, Siegfried Lautsch
Chapter 5: The Development of NATO Defense Plans for Central Europe in the Final Decades of the Cold War, Gregory W. Pedlow
Chapter 6: The Defense of Highway 84: Recollections of the Commander, B Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1978–1980, Roger Cirillo
Chapter 7: The Fulda Gap: A Personal Perspective from Platoon Leader to Army Group, Crosbie E. Saint
Chapter 8: The GDR and its Mission in the Warsaw Pact, Torsten Diedrich
Chapter 9: The Wartime Mission of the Border Troops of the GDR, Detlef Rotha
Chapter 10: Brinkmanship in the Cold War: Theoretical Foundation and Application, Mathias Rupp
Chapter 11: When the Cold War Almost Turned Hot, Albin F. Irzyk
Chapter 12: When the World Stood at the Abyss—and No One Knew It, Volker Bausch
Chapter 13: The Military Relationship of Forces between the North Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Pact, Michael Poppe
Chapter 14: The Alliances and the Fulda Gap: A Balance between Ideology, Politics, Strategy, and Operational Plans, Dieter Krüger