Download or read book West German Armament written by Lewis Joachim Edinger and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West German Armament written by Lewis Joachim Edinger and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Germans to the Front written by David Clay Large and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germany's total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. The book is the first comprehensive study in English of West German rearmament during this critical period. Large's analysis of the complex interplay between the diplomatic and domestic facets of the rearmament debate illuminates key elements in the development of the Cold War and in Germany's ongoing difficulty in formulating a role for itself on the international scene. Rearmament severely tested West Germany's new parliamentary institutions, dramatically defined emerging power relationships in German politics, and posed a crucial challenge for the NATO alliance. Although the establishment of the Bundeswehr ultimately helped stabilize the nation, the acrimony surrounding its formation generated deep divisions in German society that persisted long after the army took the field. According to Large, the conflict was so bitter because rearmament forced a confrontation with fundamental questions of national identity and demanded a painful reckoning with the past.

Download or read book West German Military Modernization Goals Resources and Conventional Arms Control written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several years, West German leaders have unveiled carefully constructed and ambitious plans, commonly called Bundeswehr 2000, to modernize military forces in the next several years. The financial requirements of these modernization efforts are certain to be large, particularly since replacement equipment is almost always more costly than its predecessors. Requirements appear substantial even with conventional force reduction agreements that cut forces. Several factors further complicate West Germany's modernization efforts. A precipitous drop in the number of male youths will make achieving conscript personnel goals virtually impossible. This demographic trough also will exert strong upward wage pressures for careerists and make careerist personnel objectives both more difficult to achieve and more costly. The falling Soviet threat, strengthened by political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe; the debate over NATO strategy and force structure; and the emerging debate about the need for and role of the Bundeswehr complicate modernization efforts. The reunification of Germany also seems certain to alter modernization plans. West Germany's ability to achieve its military modernization goals is important. For the immediate future, Germany will remain the most critical European player in NATO's defense strategy. This will be true as long as Soviet forces are in Eastern Europe and regardless of the outcomes of reforms in the East, Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) negotiations, and German reunification. This report compares the financial requirements of achieving Bundeswehr modernization goals with a range of projected budgetary resources. The financial requirements of major equipment production and projected resources are estimated for two cases: in the absence of conventional arms control in Europe and following a first-stage CFE agreement.

Download or read book The Finger on the Trigger written by Jiří Hron and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air University Documentary Research Study West German Armament written by United States. Air Force Dept and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The German Defense Of Berlin written by Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often written during imprisonment in Allied War camps by former German officers, with their memories of the World War fresh in their minds, The Foreign Military Studies series offers rare glimpses into the Third Reich. In this study Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar discusses his recollections of the climatic battle for Berlin from within the Wehrmacht. “No cohesive, over-all plan for the defense of Berlin was ever actually prepared. All that existed was the stubborn determination of Hitler to defend the capital of the Reich. Circumstances were such that he gave no thought to defending the city until it was much too late for any kind of advance planning. Thus the city’s defense was characterized only by a mass of improvisations. These reveal a state of total confusion in which the pressure of the enemy, the organizational chaos on the German side, and the catastrophic shortage of human and material resources for the defense combined with disastrous effect. “The author describes these conditions in a clear, accurate report which I rate very highly. He goes beyond the more narrow concept of planning and offers the first German account of the defense of Berlin to be based upon thorough research. I attach great importance to this study from the standpoint of military history and concur with the military opinions expressed by the author.”-Foreword by Generaloberst a.D. Franz Halder.

Download or read book Origins and Development of West German Military Thought written by Julian Lider and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West Germany s Striving for Nuclear Armaments written by Jerzy Kowalewski and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book German Military Rifles and Machine Pistols 1871 1945 written by Hans-Dieter Gotz and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated volume covers the development of modern German rifles and machine pistols, as well as their ammunition, and includes many rare and experimental types. Covered are the Werder rifle, Mauser rifles, the various M/71 rifles and ammunition, the 88 cartridge, the Infantry Rifle 88, the 98 rifles, the Fallschirmjger rifle, the 41 & 43 rifles, ERMA and Walther machine pistols and many more.

Download or read book Rearming Germany written by James S. Corum and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive view of trhe reamament of Germany after World War II. The book centers on the debate on German rearmament inside Germany and in the international context. The issues of military planning and economic effects of German rearmament are discussed, as well as the rearmament of the East German State.

Download or read book West Germany in NATO written by Julian Lider and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorandum on the threat to peace represented by the armament policy of West Germany written by Allemagne (République démocratique). Ausschuss für deutsche Einheit and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans 1941 1944 written by Robert M. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Nuclear Weapons for West Germany written by Ewald W. Schnitzer and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The German Campaign in Russia written by George E. Blau and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: