Soviet military planning for conflict in Europe after World War II from the outset harnessed East European military capabilities to Soviet military purposes and assumed operational subordination of East European military formations to higher-level Soviet commands. A Polish command-staff exercise in 1950, for example, assumed subordination of a Polish Army (comprised of five divisions and other units) to a Soviet Maritime Front (tasked in the exercise with occupying Denmark).1 Following founding of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact) in May 1955, a supreme Warsaw Pact military command was established in Moscow, but this institution existed largely on paper until the 1960’s.
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1978_03_21 STATUTE ON THE COMBINED ARMED FORCES
1978_03_28 OFFICIAL REPORT
1978_06_27 STATUTE ON THE COMBINED FLEET
1978_09_06 DRAFT STATUTE ON THE WARSAW PACT
1979_05_11 REPORT ON THE WARSAW PACT COOPERATION
1979_07_18 LETTER FROM WARSAW PACT
1979_11_28 WARTIME STATUTE OF THE COMBINED FORCES
1980_02_07 WARTIME STATUTE
1980_02_08 STATUTE ON THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE WARSAW PACT
1980_02_21 TWELFTH SESSION
1980_02_25 DRAFT STATUTE ON WARSAW PACT COMBINED NAMED FORCES
1980_03_19 OFFICIAL RECORD AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
1980_04_11 FROM THE 12TH SESSION
1980_05_22 ROMANIAS PROPOSED REVISIONS
1980_07_25 RATIFICATION OF THE WARTIME STATUTE ON THE WARSAW PACT
1980_09_22 GIEREK DISCUSSIONS WITH MARSHAL KULIKOV
1980_10_08 MISCELLANEOUS
1982_01_01 THE UNIFIED WARTIME COMMAND
1983_06_28 MILITARY RELIABILITY OF THE SOVIET UNIONS WARSAW PACT ALLIES
1983_06_10 THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WARSAW PACT
1983_06_10 BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1983_10_01 THE SOVIET UNIONS CONTROL OF THE WARSAW PACT FORCES
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