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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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: 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.
The Future of NATO
Author: Andrew A. MichtaPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472072408
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The conclusion of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Afghanistan in 2014 closes an important chapter in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In this volume, European and US experts examine a range of perennial issues facing the Alliance, including relations with Russia, NATO’s institutional organization and command structure, and the role of the United States in the Alliance, in order to show how these issues shape today’s most pressing debate—the debate over the balance between NATO’s engagement in security operations globally and traditional defense within the North-Atlantic region. The volume’s contributors propose that NATO can indeed find a viable balance between competing, but not inherently incompatible, strategic visions. A theoretically informed, empirical account and analysis of NATO’s recent evolution, this volume will appeal to both security scholars and practitioners from the policy community.
The Future of NATO
Author: 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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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.
NATO - Standardization of Equipment Now and in the Future
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Languages : en
Pages : 21
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The issue of standardization and interoperability within NATO is complex and emotional. NATO has just celebrated its 37th year as a successful defensive alliance and has been successful in its ability to cooperate economically and, in most cases, politically. More importantly, it has succeeded in deterring the Warsaw Pact, primarily through a strategy of nuclear deterrence. However, it has failed to provide a strong conventional defense primarily because of a lack of defense spending by member countries. The conventional force can be improved not only through additional defense spending but also through the cooperative effort of standardization and interoperability of equipment. The NATO nations, in December 1983, decided that it was important to know and understand what was needed to meet the Warsaw Pact threat up to the year 2005. In response, the Conceptual Military Framework (CMF) was designed which outlined the threat and what is needed to accommodate the recent proliferation of new initiatives (primarily, Follow-On-Forces Attack (FOFA)) and emerging technologies with the existing strategy and available resources. NATO has continued to improve its cooperative efforts in standardization and interoperability by exchanging technologies, working together as nations to build equipment, such as the Tornado aircraft, and working together to share emerging technologies.
Modeling and Analysis of Conventional Defense in Europe
Author: Reiner K. HuberPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781461292814
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book presents a collection of contributions to a workshop on "Long-teY'fr/ Development of NATO's Conventional Forrward Defense" to which the GERMAN STRATEGY FORUM (DSF*» had invited some 50 systems analysts and defense experts of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany and the SHAPE Technical Centre. Held in Bonn from 2 to 4 December 1984, this workshop was to provide a forum for the dis cussion, at a non-political expert level and in the light of available analysis results, of proposals for the improvement of NATO's conventional defense capabilities. In addition, it aimed at arriving at some recommenda tions as to which of these proposals deserve to be studied further and what methodological deficiencies must be alleviated and information gaps closed for an adequate assessment. The idea to organize this workshop has been discussed ever since 1980 with several defense systems analysts in the US and the UK who shared the opinion that, with a view to the immense global build-up of the Soviet threat on one hand and the stringency of defense resources in most NATO countries on the other, there is no reason that could permit us to dismiss any proposal promising improvement without careful study.