Civil-military relations in Poland and East Germany: The external factor

DALE R. HERSPRING is a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State. He is the author of East German Civil-Military Relations: The Impact of Technology, 1949-1972 (1973), and the Senior Editor and contributor to Civil-Military Relations in Communist Systems (1978). Dr. Herspring is also the author of numerous articles and essays on civil-military relations in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, which have appeared in scholarly journals and books.