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Operational arms control measures can improve NATO’s military security through three key elements: reducing the threat of strategic or operational surprise, raising the risks of preparing for attacks, and improving NATO’s tactical odds on D-Day.
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Examines the administrative processes and competing influences involved in negotiating statements of NATO's tactical air doctrine, including the joint process for developing U.S. positions on NATO air doctrine and the combined process
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Concentrating on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), this Note describes the programmatic, budgetary, arms control, and political contours of the strategic defense agenda that the new president is likely to confront.
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This Note describes the essential features of the balance of conventional forces in Central Europe and presents the author's view of the consequences of an analysis of these features.
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Analyzes different ways in which NATO can respond to the nuclear requirements that flow from its strategy.
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year-1988. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1987.
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In August 1988, the author attended a conference held in Kiruna, Sweden, on the subject of "Independent Arms Verification and Crisis Monitoring from Space." The conference examined the possibilities, problems, and limitations of utilizing civil (i.e....
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This paper considers the connections between East-West economic relations on the one hand, and Soviet international behavior on the other. The author examines the writings and statements of six well-known policymakers and commentators to derive the r...
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... RAND Corporation, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs sponsored a conference in San Diego, California, on Extended Deterrence and Arms Control.
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Analyzes the range of differing views on policy with regard to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the 1980s.
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Reports results from research on likely future emissions of potential ozone-depleting substances.
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This bibliography collects some of the diverse literature in the fields of security policy, development policy, and resource tradeoffs, particularly as they relate to developing countries in Africa.
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This Note examines the relationship between conventional defense and arms control planning and assesses the conditions under which arms control can help NATO meet its conventional defense requirements.
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The year 1986 was a very active and potentially significant one for arms control. Stockholm agreements were a limited but useful step toward regulating Warsaw Pact and NATO forces. The United States and the Soviet Union met at Reykjavik and worked o...
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This paper reviews the status of U.S. conventional forces committed to NATO. It highlights recent developments in the Soviet threat; examines the main trends in general purpose force deployment and combat capability; considers the intra-alliance pol...
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This paper suggests a framework that relates U.S. policies regarding the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and arms control to fundamental objectives of U.S. security--deterring aggression and limiting damage should deterrence fail. The paper argue...
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This paper was originally presented as an address to the North Atlantic Assembly in Plenary Session, The Storting, Oslo, Norway, on September 25, 1987.
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This study examines the doctrine and force structure of the Luftwaffe in the context of German defense policy considerations. It analyzes several of the propositions of Luftwaffe doctrine using U.S. quantitative models of air-land combat in NATO's ce...
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Analyzes the key doctrinal and operational interests of allied services in NATO.
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Attempts to structure the broad range of issues affecting the potential development of anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) systems by evaluating the relationship among NATO's potential needs for ATBMs, the technologies under development...
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