Brotherhood of Arms 80
Brotherhood of Arms 80 was the name of a major maneuver by the armed forces of the Warsaw Treaty states , which took place on the territory of the German Democratic Republic on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the military alliance from September 4 to 12, 1980 . It was the most extensive maneuver in the history of the Warsaw Treaty and was under the direction of the Defense Minister of the GDR Heinz Hoffmann . Associations of all branches of arms with a total of around 40,000 soldiers from the National People's Army of the GDR , the Soviet Army , the Polish People's Army , the Czechoslovak People's Army , the Romanian People's Army , the Hungarian People's Army and the Bulgarian People's Army were involved .
The motto of the maneuver was "United for peace and socialism - no chance for the enemy". Security experts in the Bundeswehr command staff assumed that Brotherhood of Arms 80 was merely "demonstrative in character"; it has little meaningfulness about the real fighting strength of the allies in the Warsaw Pact.
literature
- Oliver Bange: Security and State: The GDR's Alliance and Military Policy in an International Context, 1969 to 1990 . In: Military history of the GDR . tape 25 . Ch.links, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-934-6 , p. 365 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Brotherhood of Arms 80th Warsaw Pact maneuver, 1980 . Colonel a. D. Erich Sobik. In Truppenpraxis 2/1981 Darmstadt, Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Camouflage from the forester . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1980 ( online - 22 September 1980 ).
- ↑ International editors “Brotherhood of Arms 80”: Brotherhood of Arms - Maneuvers September 80 in the German Democratic Republic . No. 3 , September 1980 ( nva-forum.de [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on October 5, 2018]).