HC Deb 21 April 1986 vol 96 c88W
Mr. Ashdown

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give his Department's best estimate of the relative numbers of (a) Warsaw pact and (b) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation manpower division equivalents which would be able to be deployed four days after mobilisation in the case of a two-front attack in the central front.

Mr. Stanley

My Department does not use manpower division equivalents in calculations of the balance of forces between Warsaw pact and NATO.

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