1. John Keegan, The Mask of Command (New York: Viking, 1987), p. 236.

2. Ruth Leger Sivard, World Military and Social Expenditures 1985 (Washington, DC: World Priorities, Inc.),pp. 10-11. These figures are probably low.

3. Center for Defense Information, "NATO and Warsaw Pact Forces: Conventional War in Europe," Defense Monitor, Vol. XVII, No. 3 (1988), p. 6.