Alternative Conventional Defense Postures in the European Theater: Military Alternatives for Europe After the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9780844817286 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 336 str.

Hans Gunter Brauch; Robert Kennedy; Carl F. Von Weizsacker

Opis

The various essays in this volume aim to provide food for thought and a call for reasoned response to realistic security needs.

Spis treści

Part 1 Surveys of force posture alternatives: debate on alternative conventional military force structure designs for the defense of central Europe in the Federal Republic of Germany; the American debate on conventional alternatives for the defense of Central Europe. PArt 2 Force posture alternatives: nuclear forces and the defense of Europe; mutual structural defensive superiority - a new security philosophy and elements of a new force structure design; nonprovocative defense - a conceptual critique and an alternative approach. Part 3 Internaional and domestic changes: Germany's political role and military force planning in the post Cold War order in Europe and the continued relevance of non-offensive defense; European security, NATO and the future of the new international cooperative system after the second Russian revolution.

O autorze

Hans Gunter Brauch, Robert Kennedy