CENTAG wartime structure in 1989

The Central Army Group (CENTAG) was a NATO military formation comprising four Army Corps from two NATO member nations comprising troops from Canada, West Germany and the United States.

During the Cold War, CENTAG was NATO's forward defence in the southern half of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).

In 1966, France had withdrawn from the NATO Command Structure, but it still wished to take part in the defence of Western Europe.

A series of secret US-French agreements, the Lemnitzer-Ailleret Agreements, made between NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and the French Chief of the Defence Staff detailed how French forces would reintegrate into the NATO Command Structure in case of war.

The estimated wartime structure of CENTAG in the fall of 1989 at the end of the Cold War follows below.