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"Why the Soviets Can't Win Quickly in Central Europe" is a 1982 article written by John Mearsheimer published in International Security, republished as a chapter in Conventional Deterrence in 1983. It argued against the prevailing belief at the time that a Warsaw Pact invasion would lead to a quick victory over NATO on Continental Europe on the basis that a surprise attack was likely not possible, the deficiencies in the speed of Warsaw Pact mobilisation were too great and the urban defense capacity of NATO was sufficient to bring any advance to a halt. Its publication caused an academic debate that ran for several years about the conventional and nuclear approaches to a hypothetical NATO-Warsaw Pact war.
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