1st Edition
The Defense Of The West Strategic And European Security Issues Reappraised
466 Pages
by
Routledge
451 Pages
by
Routledge
451 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing on their daily involvement with defense issues and their interactions with the military and political elements of the national security community, civilian and military defense analysts in the U.S. Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute offer a lucid analysis of the complex mosaic of strategic and European defense issues. Their contributions are probing, balanced, and provocative,... Read more
Also of Interest -- Preface -- Strategic Issues -- The Changing Strategic Balance and US Defense Planning -- All Features Grate and Stall: Soviet Strategic Vulnerabilities and the Future of Deterrence -- The Strategic Implications of Civil Defense -- China and the Great Power Balance -- Ballistic Missile Defense, Space-Based Weapons, and the Defense of the West -- Start: Problems and Prospects -- European Security Issues -- Soviet Theater Nuclear Capabilities: the European Nuclear Balance in Transition -- The Soviet Threat to Europe: Prospects for the 1980’s -- Chemical Weapons Rearmament and the Security of Europe: can Support be Mustered? -- Improving Europe’s Conventional Defenses -- The Once and Future Quest: European Arms Control—Issues and Prospects -- Nato Defense through European Eyes -- Epilogue
Biography
"Dr. Robert Kennedy has published articles on national security issues in a variety of professional journals. He is professor of military strategy in the Department of National Security at the U.S. Army War College, where formerly he was a senior researcher at the Strategic Studies Institute. Dr. John M. Weinstein, author of numerous articles on Soviet and U.S. strategic matters, is a strategic nuclear forces analyst on the Army General Staff. He has taught at several colleges and universities and served as a visiting research professor at the U.S. Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute."
