{"product_id":"the-year-of-maximum-danger-1983-9798869209788","title":"The Year of Maximum Danger 1983","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"You don't know how close war is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadomir Bogdanov, Deputy Director, Institute of the USA and Canada, 1983\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It was a matter of rather--I would say-greater danger than almost any other period in the Cold War, if only because the most-shall we say extreme-or hardline elements in the Soviet intelligence and military leadership might have at some point either misconstrued some \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edevelopments in the West or chosen to act on the basis of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eevaluations that were greatly exaggerated. And that's why I think there was such great danger involved.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Raymond L. Garthof, specialist on arms control and intelligence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"in 1983, the Soviet military conducted its own exercise, Zapad [West] 83, which prepared (for the first time since the Second World War) for a situation where our armed forces obtained reliable data of an [an adversary's] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecision made by highest military and political leadership to launch a surprise attack, using all possible firepower (artillery, aviation, etc.) against us. In response, we \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econducted offensive operations to disrupt the enemy attack and defeat its troops. That is, a preemptive strike.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov, Soviet Deputy Chief of the General Staff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Excel Book Writing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50407788839186,"sku":"9798869209788","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-year-of-maximum-danger-1983-9798869209788","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}