Alternative Conventional Defense Postures In The European Theater: Military Alternatives for Europe after the Cold WarHans G. Brauch, Robert F. Jr. Kennedy Taylor & Francis, 2018 M10 24 - 336 pages First published in 1993. This volume, edited jointly by the American strategic expert Robert Kennedy and the German peace researcher Hans Giinter Brauch, takes up conceptual ideas developed by Horst Afheldt and Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, as well as others on both sides of the Atlantic, since the 1960s. Our aim has been to contribute to the development of concepts that would reduce the danger of a third world war by the creation of more stable structures in the context of a defensively oriented conventional defense posture. In this volume a variety of alternative approaches to European conventional defense, driven for the most part by similar strategic considerations, are presented by German and American experts to a larger international audience. |
Contents
Nuclear Forces and the Defense of Europe John M Weinstein | |
Improving NATOs Defense Franz UhleWettler | |
A New Security | |
The SAS Proposal | |
A Conceptual Critique and | |
Future Roles of Germany | |
European Security NATO and the Future of the | |
Chronology of Political Change in Europe January 1991 through | |
Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany | |
Treaty Between the Federal Republic of Germany and | |
Charter of Paris for a New Europe | |
Includes bibliographic references | |
Common terms and phrases
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