The Third World War as Envisaged by Polish Generals at the Turn of the 1950s and the 1960s

• Authors: Jarosław Pałka
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This article gives an account of the military exercises code-named ‘Tempest’ and carried out in the autumn of 1961 by the army of the Polish People’s Republic under the supervision of Soviet officers. In the course of the war game the Polish staff members were placed in charge of the Baltic Front which, was given the task of seizing control of Denmark and the northern parts of Holland and Germany. These were the first large scale military exercises (a separate Polish front) to be organized after 1956.

Keywords

PL

Warsaw Pact; the Polish people’s army; cold war; Third World War; war game; NATO

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 124
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-11-02

Contributors

author

Jarosław Pałka

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/KH.2017.124.SI.1.04