CFE Treaty
CFE Treaty.The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was signed in Paris on 19 November 1990 by the heads of state of the then‐members of NATO and the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO, or Warsaw Pact). The treaty's system of equal and verified quantitative ceilings on conventional weaponry (main battle tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, strike aircraft, and attack helicopters) was designed to impose a stable military balance on the Cold War's two opposing alliances. In practice, however, the most pronounced effect of the CFE Treaty was to mandate steep reductions in the overall size and forward deployment of the Soviet armed forces; NATO forces were little affected. Such an outcome would have been inconceivable if the Cold War were not already well near its close by the...
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