Battlegroup! the lessons of the unfought battles of the Cold War Storr, Jim creator author. text bibliography Military history. enk 2021 monographic eng 295 pages, xvi pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 24 cm Battlegroup! investigates the unfought land battles of the Cold War on the Central Front. It focusses on the 1980s. It looks solely at high-intensity, conventional warfare; largely from NATO's perspective. It concentrates on the lower tactical levels: from company to brigade, or perhaps division. It considers the tactics, organisation and equipment and of the American, British, West German, French and Soviet armies. The book discusses what battles would have been fought; then how they would have been fought; and, lastly, what we can learn from that. The first section looks at the strategic and operational setting and the armies involved. The second section looks at the components of a land force; how those components were organized, and would fight; and assembles them into battlegroups, brigades and divisions. Battlegroup! then steps through the tactics of land warfare: delay, defence and withdrawal; advance, attack and counterattack; fighting in woods, built up areas and at night; and air support to land operations. The final section of the book illustrates some of the possible early engagements of any war on the Central Front. It then draws out the major observations and conclusions. Jim Storr ; foreword by General Sir James Everard. Includes bibliographical references and index. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Warsaw Treaty Organization. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Warsaw Treaty Organization. Europe History, Military 20th century Cold War Guerre froide Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978 1900-1999 fast U155.E85 S76 2021 355.0209409045 9781914059964 1914059964 pda,print YDX 210305 20250318214806.4 in00004583217 eng