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Eastern Europe's Economic Contribution to Soviet Defense

出版	Rand, 1988
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o-0nAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This paper explores and sizes the economic contribution of Eastern Europe to the Soviet military effort and the Soviet defense industry. Three areas are examined: the value of East European forces in terms of the ruble cost of equivalent Soviet troops; economies of scale in Soviet arms production made possible by exports of Soviet arms to the region, and transfers of East European technology through Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) programs. Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact (NSWP) forces would be an essential component in most plausible scenarios for a Warsaw Pact attack on Western Europe. Although Soviet armies would spearhead such an invasion, Soviet military planners appear to have assigned important roles to East German and Polish troops in northern Germany and to the Czechs in the south. In terms of numbers, the NSWP armies field 859,000 men, of whom 655,000 are members of the forces of the Northern Tier (Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland). The Soviets field 565,000 men in the region. NSWP air defenses are firmly integrated with Soviet operations in the area, and NSWP air forces provide a substantial addition to Soviet forces.