ASSESSED MANPOWER OF WARSAW PACT FORCES IN THE MBFR REDUCTION AREA

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• Publication Date: December 1, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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Director of
Central
Intelligence
Assessed Manpower of
Warsaw Pact Forces in
the MBFR Reduction Area
Interagency Intelligence Memorandum
December 1980
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ASSESSED MANPOWER OF
WARSAW PACT FORCES IN
THE MBFR REDUCTION AREA
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CONTENTS
PREFACE ...................................................................................................................
TABLE I: SUMMARY ..............................................................................................
TABLE II: SOVIET FORCES, MBFR REDUCTION AREA .............................
A. Summary of Soviet Forces ..............................................................................
TABLE III: EAST GERMAN FORCES ................................................................. 13
A. Summary of East German Forces .................................................................. 13
TABLE IV: POLISH FORCES ................................................................................ 17
A. Summary of Polish Forces .............................................................................. 17
TABLE V: CZECHOSLOVAK FORCES ............................................................... 25
A. Summary of Czechoslovak Forces .................................................................. 25
GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................ 31
DEFINITION OF ROUNDING RULES ................................................................ 32
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PREFACE
This Interagency Intelligence Memorandum was prepared under
the aegis of the National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose
Forces with the collaboration and concurrence of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The memoran-
dum assesses Warsaw Pact ground and air force manpower in Central
Europe (East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia). It was produced
in support of the US effort to negotiate a mutual and balanced force
reduction (MBFR) agreement and to establish the US position on the
size of the Pact forces in the reduction area.
The figures in the memorandum represent the estimated numeri-
cal strength, as of 1 January 1980, of all Warsaw Pact personnel that the
United States and NATO currently define as military servicemen sub-
ject to MBFR negotiation: that is, "all active-duty uniformed military
servicemen, except naval personnel, in the area of reductions." The
rounded figures depict the US estimate of the number of military
personnel assigned to the roster of Pact units in Central Europe at the
beginning of 1980 and are not intended to represent the number of
personnel authorized or available for duty on one particular day.
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Table I
SUMMARY
A. WARSAW PACT MANPOWER IN THE MBFR REDUCTION AREA,
DIVIDED BETWEEN GROUND AND AIR FORCES.
(All East European national air defense personnel are counted as air manpower,
and all Pact helicopter personnel in units supporting ground forces are counted as
ground manpower.)
Soviet
GDR
Poland
Czechoslovakia
479,000
115,500
227,500
150,000
57,000
38,500
91,500
53,000
536,000
154,000
319,000
203,000
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Table II
SOVIET FORCES, MBFR REDUCTION AREA
A. SUMMARY OF SOVIET FORCES
Forces
Ground Forces
Air Forces
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Manning
479,000
57,000
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Table III
EAST GERMAN FORCES
A. SUMMARY OF EAST GERMAN FORCES
Ground Forces
115,500
Air/Air Defense Forces
38,500
Total
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Table IV
POLISH FORCES
A. SUMMARY OF POLISH FORCES
Ground Forces
Air Forces
Air Defense Forces a
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227,500
42,500
49,000
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CZECHOSLOVAK FORCES
A. SUMMARY OF CZECHOSLOVAK FORCES
Ground Forces
Air Forces
Air Defense Forces a
150,000
28,000
25,000
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GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS
AAA-Antiaircraft artillery
Acft-aircraft
Acq-acquisition
Ad-air defense
Admin-administrative
AF-air force
Afid-airfield
Arty-artillery
Bde-brigade
Bmb-bomber
Bn-battalion
CAF-Czechoslovak Air Force
CGF-Central Group of Forces
Cmd-command
Co-company
Comms-communications
Const-construction
CSSR-Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Det-detachment
Div-division
ECM-electronic countermeasures
Engr-engineer
GCI-ground-controlled intercept
GDR-German Democratic Republic
GSFG-Group of Soviet Forces, Germany
GTA-guards tank army
Hel-helicopter
Hq-headquarters
Ind-independent
Insp-inspector
Intel-intelligence
Maint-maintenance
MBFR-mutual and balanced force reduction
MD-military district
Mech-mechanized
Med-medical
Misc-miscellaneous
MND-Ministry of National Defense
MP-military police
NADC-national air defense command
NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGF-Northern Group of Forces
No.-northern
PAF-Polish Air Force
Pit-platoon
POL-petrol (gasoline), oil, and lubricants
PRTB-mobile technical repair base
(from the Russian podvizhnaya remontnaya
tekhnicheskaya baza)
Recce-reconnaissance
R&D-research and development
Rgt-regiment
RR-railroad
SA-shock army
SAF-Soviet Air Force
SAM-surface-to-air missile
Sig-signals
SIGINT-signals intelligence
So-southern
Spt-support
Sqdn-squadron
SSM-surface-to-surface missile
TAA-tactical air army
TAF-tactical air force
Tech-technical
TEL-transporter-erector-launcher
Tgt-target
Tng-training
Trans-transport, transportation
U/I-unidentified
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DEFINITION OF ROUNDING RULES
All personnel figures in this memorandum have been subjected to the following
rounding rules except for those estimates of ground maneuver divisions and air combat
regiments-estimates in which there is the highest confidence:
Estimated figures
in range
Rounded to
nearest
1 through 49
5
50 through 249
25
250 through 999
50
1,000 through 4,999
100
5,000 through 9,999
250
10,000 and greater
500
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