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The Defense of the West : strategic and European security issues reappraised
Title
The Defense of the West : strategic and European security issues reappraised / edited by Robert Kennedy and John M. Weinstein.
ISBN
0429309953
1000243958
1000279898
1000315835
9780429309953
9781000243956
9781000279894
9781000315837
Published
LONDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2019.
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1 online resource
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Biographical / Historical Note
"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."
Summary
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, designed for students of foreign and defense affairs, as well as for policymakers. In the first section of the book, the offensive and defensive aspects of the strategic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union are examined. Going beyond sterile, static weapons counts, the authors address the relationship between the overall disposition of military forces and deterrence and are attentive to possible future developments, including the impact of new technologies and changing Sino-Soviet relations that are likely to affect the U.S.-USSR relationship. The second section of the book focuses on crucial East-West defense issues within Europe: the balance of conventional and theater nuclear forces, prospects for European arms control, the impact of chemical weapons on deterrence and defense, and the fashioning of an effective nonnuclear NATO defense. The book concludes with a chapter that illuminates U.S.-West European historical and cultural divergences, explaining in a new way the political strains that frequently plague the alliance.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Westview special study
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; PART 1- STRATEGIC ISSUES; 1 THE CHANGING STRATEGIC BALANCE AND US DEFENSE PLANNING; 2 ALL FEATURES GRATE AND STALL: SOVIET STRATEGIC VULNERABILITIES AND THE FUTURE OF DETERRENCE; 3 THE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF CIVIL DEFENSE; 4 CHINA AND THE GREAT POWER BALANCE; 5 BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE, SPACE- BASED WEAPONS, AND THE DEFENSE OF THE WEST; 6 START: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS; PART 2- EUROPEAN SECURITY ISSUES; 7 SOVIET THEATER NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES: THE EUROPEAN NUCLEAR BALANCE IN TRANSITION
8 THE SOVIET THREAT TO EUROPE: PROSPECTS FOR THE 1980's9 CHEMICAL WEAPONS REARMAMENT AND THE SECURITY OF EUROPE: CAN SUPPORT BE MUSTERED?; 10 IMPROVING EUROPE'S CONVENTIONAL DEFENSES; 11 THE ONCE AND FUTURE QUEST: EUROPEAN ARMS CONTROL- ISSUES AND PROSPECTS; 12 NATO DEFENSE THROUGH EUROPEAN EYES; EPILOGUE; Contributors; Index
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