ABSTRACT
In a nuclear conflict the nuclear weapon is predominant and determines everything else: the deployment, the absence of static defence features, dispersal, and the extension of the battlefield. In a conventional conflict between nuclear powers, however, it is the threat of the nuclear weapon which determines everything else, and that again is the deployment, the absence of static defence features, dispersal, and the extension of the battlefield. The most important of these consequences is that the defence must be almost as strong numerically as the attacker. But there is an upper limit to the number of troops that can be accommodated on the battlefield, in our own territory, if nuclear deployment rules are observed. The number of troops that can usefully be employed in the enemy rear depends in the first place on the types of missions they are supposed to perform.
