The Defense of the West: Strategic and European Security Issues Reappraised

ISBN-13: 9780367291204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 451 str.

Robert Kennedy; John M. Weinstein

Opis

This book examines the offensive and defensive aspects of the strategic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union. It focuses on crucial East-West defense issues within Europe: the balance of conventional and theater nuclear forces and prospects for European arms control.

Spis treści

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