Allies and Adversaries

Policy Insights Into Strategic Defense Relationships

Bruce W. Don

Expert InsightsPublished 1986

This paper discusses international security issues that result from the relationships among nations in a modern military alliance system. The author argues that the threat-bargain mechanisms of long-term nonbelligerent competition between East and West call for a revised NATO defense policy based on containment, deterrence, and bargaining. Such a defense policy can be achieved through an alliance effort that is essentially economic.

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  • Year: 1986
  • Pages: 483
  • Document Number: P-7242-RGS

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Don, Bruce W., Allies and Adversaries: Policy Insights Into Strategic Defense Relationships. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1986. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7242.html.
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