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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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The Future of Conventional Defense Improvements in NATO
Author: The Future of Conventional Defense Improvements in Nato
Author: The Future of Conventional Defense Improvements in NATO
Author: Conventional Forces and the NATO Strategy of Flexible Response
Author: Roger L. L. FacerPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Concern has grown in recent years about Europe's dependence on nuclear weapons for its security. The credibility of the current NATO strategy of flexible response is being questioned. It is widely felt that NATO should strengthen its conventional force capability in order to raise the nuclear threshold. New developments in technology appear to offer hope that a main obstacle to an effective conventional defense against conventional attack, its cost, can at last be overcome. This report gives a wide overview of the implications of these developments. Concentrating on central Europe, it examines the question whether the continued maintenance of an effective strategy of deterrence requires a change in the relationship between the conventional and nuclear elements of it. It considers the adoption of a no-first-use policy buttressed by conventional force improvements large enough to create a permanent conventional force balance in Europe. The report concludes that improving conventional forces to the point of equivalence with the Warsaw Pact would risk decoupling the defense of Europe against conventional attack from the United States' nuclear umbrella and would thus reduce deterrence as well as damage the cohesion of the Alliance.
NATO's Future Conventional Defense Strategy in Central Europe: Theater Employment Doctrine for the Post-Cold War Era
Author: Rand CorporationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This report provides a political-military analysis for thinking about how NATO's conventional defense strategy can be adjusted to contribute to stability in Central Europe in the coming post-Cold War era. The report (which was assembled in early 1991) concludes that NATO will need to employ a new "theater employment doctrine"--The way NATO uses military force on the battlefield to attain its goals--one that defends further eastward and more flexibly than the linear defense contemplated. All viable alternatives for such a doctrine will require NATO to uproot long-established defense practices. Changes will have to be made not only in NATO's force posture, but also in how coalition defense is conducted. Having a concerted planning effort that forges a coherent relationship among NATO's future defense strategy, employment doctrine, and force posture can ensure these changes are well-managed, thus leaving NATO with a viable conventional defense strategy even if forces are smaller than they are now.
The Future of NATO
Author: Improving the Balance of Conventional Forces in Europe
Author: John H. HawesDepartment of State Bulletin
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Current Policy
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
The Future: Warfare, military forces and technology
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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