Planning for long-term security in Central Europe : implications of the new strategic environment / Paul K. Davis, Robert D. Howe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Paul K., 1943-

Contributor:

Rand Corporation.

Rand Strategy Assessment Center.

United States. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.

Howe, Robert D. (Robert Dale), 1936-

Series:

R (Rand Corporation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Europe, Central.

National security.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 50 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [1990]

Summary:

The recent changes in Europe have transformed the strategic landscape and altered what can be accomplished with respect to security. This report proposes a framework of new NATO objectives and a strategy for accomplishing them. The approach recognizes the desirability of achieving long-term stability--a state characterized by robust security, predictability, the absence of crises and dangerous international tensions, a "reasonable" defense burden that is either constant or shrinking, and public satisfaction with the situation. To achieve this objective, the authors recommend thinking in terms of five subordinate objectives: (1) deter, without provocation, a Soviet invasion of Western Europe; (2) deter, without provocation, Soviet reentry into Eastern Europe; (3) maintain strategic equivalence; (4) deter rearmament; and (5) reduce sources of conflict and tension.

Notes:

"Prepared for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy."

"August 1990."