This book argues that NATO command arrangements (both their efficacy and their security) have been consistently ignored in previous assessments of the alliance's military capabilities, leaving NATO vulnerable in wartime and therefore less capable of acting in its deterrent role. The book consists of an introduction, an examination of command performance on military effectiveness and a description of command performance inhibitors (using historical examples), discussions of NATO command and intelligence organization and likely performance (both prewar and during conflict) at levels from the strategic to the tactical, and concludes with short- and long-term recommendations. Two brief appendices list Soviet information war tactics and major NATO command system facilities. Although the section on recommendations takes account of the death of the Soviet threat, most of the specifics of the book deal with the now non-existent threat from the Warsaw Pact.