Jeffrey Simon is a Soviet threat analyst for the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. His publications include Warsaw Pact Forces: Problems of Command and Control (Westview, 1985) and Cohesion and Dissension in Eastern Europe: Six Crises (1983). Trond Gilberg is associate director of the Slavic and Soviet Language and Area Center of Pennsylvania State University and was a visiting research professor at the US Army War College in 1983-1984. He is the author of Modernization in Romania Since World War II (1975).