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This note describes RAND's suggestions on how the tactical air reduction agreement should be structured and how NATO should implement it.
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This study attempts to design and evaluate effective arms control measures in relation to specific Korean security problems and arms control objectives that the South Korean government should undertake.
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Presents an approach for integrating arms control into the changing Korean security environment and for evaluating how alternative arms control measures affect U.S. interests.
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This paper describes the administration's thinking on NATO's future and the relationship between NATO and members of the former Warsaw Pact. A NATO meeting scheduled for January 10, 1994, is expected to discuss the question of NATO enlargement and ho...
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Examines the process of European integration and assesses its implications for U.S. policy.
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Whatever direction events in the Asian Pacific take, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) will likely play a pivotal part in China's evolution. This brief summarizes the PLA's political-military system and likely role in the succession process.
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Testimony Before the U.S. Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations, February 1993.
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The unintentional moratorium on tritium production in the United States began in early 1989. The continuing hiatus could affect government thinking, strategy, and action in three time frames.
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The threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons development program could significantly increase tensions in Northeast Asia. This Note presents four options for achieving a nuclear-free Korea.
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In the years ahead, noncombat operations ranging from disaster relief to "AWACs diplomacy" are likely to form a growing portion of Air Force activities. This note examines the Air Force's experience with such operations over the last fifty years.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) faces a doubtful future. Its organizing principle has disappeared.
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After a cataclysmic year, Western Europeans encourage the turn toward Western values by the people of the former Soviet Union and welcome the tentative steps toward unity of the European Community (EC). Yet, as 1992 begins, they appear uncertain, app...
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This paper contains the text of a statement before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, January 29, 1992. It presents data from a survey conducted in late 1991 as part of an e...
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This study describes the efforts to renew NATO in 1989-1991, the downturn of 1992, and the implications for U.S. policy toward NATO and Europe. It concludes that the United States must remain an active leader in Europe and that the Alliance must be k...
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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.
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NATO military strategy for the post-Cold War era : issues and options
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Reviews biomedical mechanisms connecting maternal age, parity, and birth spacing with infant mortality and assesses their likely importance in developing countries.
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Part of a series on naval arms control issues and alternatives, examines what naval confidence-building in its multiple forms brings to the strategic and political equation, probes the character and potential implications of Soviet proposals in this ...
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Discusses Soviet efforts to link naval limitations to ongoing negotiations on conventional forces in Europe. It examines the history of these efforts and explores alternatives for approaching naval issues in future arms control talks.
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