What are the critical factors in tank warfare? Are numbers of tanks more important than tank quality? Or can a better trained force with better equipment neutralise the quantitative advantages of a force with mediocre equipment and training? These are questions which seemed particularly relevant in the late 1980s. With the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty in effect, public attention began to turn to discussion of conventional forces in Europe. This volume by Steven J Zaloga examines the NATO and Warsaw Pact tank forces of that era, and speculates as to the possible outcome had a conventional land war been fought between them.