NATO's weakest flank and softest underbelly -- and what to do about it
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2014 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created in 1949 to contain and deter Soviet aggression, has been the most successful defensive military alliance in history. Through forty years of Cold War, military planning focused on preventing and blocking a Soviet military assault across the north German plain while reinforcing the so-called northern and southern flanks of the alliance immed ... more

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