Beyond the Cold War: Air Power Over a Flat Earth

At the beginning of 1991 the generals were restless in Moscow. They foresaw the end of Empire, renunciation of ideology and loss of status. Their armed forces remained in eastern Europe in large numbers; but now an embarrassment rather than the shock troops of a tightly controlled anti-western alliance. The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement was the symbol and the reunification of Germany the reality which in 1990 marked the ending of 45 years of confrontation between east and west.