NATO seemingly had no unified battle plan other than to “man the line” until Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces were exhausted—whereupon counterattacks could be executed to restore prewar borders.

This video explores a Cold War what-if scenario: a full-scale NATO vs. Warsaw Pact air war in 1989. Dive into the aircraft, strategies, and potential outcomes of a high-stakes clash between ...

The Warsaw Pact plan makes clear two things. First, in a surprise attack, the most important forces are the ground forces. The quicker they can advance, the sooner they can overrun NATO—and that ...

Poland became a NATO member in 1999, and although it values the NATO alliance today, the country once was central to a Soviet-led counterweight alliance, the Warsaw Pact, during the Cold War.

When Michal Sztalski, a 17-year-old high school student, came down with the flu, he went to a Warsaw clinic where he got some medicine and a piece of unsolicited advice.For a bribe of 3,000 zlotys ...

During the term in office of U.S. President Bill Clinton, NATO began, in successive rounds of negotiation and expansion, to pull former Warsaw Pact states into its membership.

The NATO countries have been producing tanks like crazy, adding almost 8,000 to the armies since 1981. The Soviet advantage in numbers has shrunk from almost 3-to-1 down to about 2-to-1 today.

What was the Warsaw Pact? During the Cold War, the USSR founded its own military alliance in response to NATO called the Warsaw Pact. All the Warsaw Pact countries outside the USSR have now joined ...

This was the first invitation of former communist nations to join NATO since the end of the Cold War. The three countries would later attain membership in 1999. Since then, former communist states ...