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The Defense of the West: Strategic and European Security Issues Reappraised
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A Westview Special Study

The Defense of the West: Strategic and European Security Issues Reappraised
edited by Robert Kennedy and John M. Weinstein

Drawing on their daily involvement with defense issues and their interactions with the military and political elements of the national security community, civilian and military defense analysts in the U.S. Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute offer a lucid analysis of the complex mosaic of strategic and European defense issues. Their contributions are probing, balanced, and provocative, designed for students of foreign and defense affairs, as well as for policymakers.

In the first section of the book, the offensive and defensive aspects of the strategic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union are examined. Going beyond sterile, static weapons counts, the authors address the relationship between the overall disposition of military forces and deterrence and are attentive to possible future developments, including the impact of new technologies and changing Sino-Soviet relations that are likely to affect the U.S.-USSR relationship.

The second section of the book focuses on crucial East-West defense issues within Europe: the balance of conventional and theater nuclear forces, prospects for European arms control, the impact of chemical weapons on deterrence and defense, and the fashioning of an effective nonnuclear NATO defense. The book concludes with a chapter that illuminates U.S.-West European historical and cultural divergences, explaining in a new way the political strains that frequently plague the alliance.

Dr. Robert Kennedy has published articles on national security issues in a variety of professional journals. He is professor of military strategy in the Department of National Security at the U.S. Army War College, where formerly he was a senior researcher at the Strategic Studies Institute. Dr. John M. Weinstein , author of numerous articles on Soviet and U.S. strategic matters, is a strategic nuclear forces analyst on the Army General Staff. He has taught at several colleges and universities and served as a visiting research professor at the U.S. Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute.

First published 1984 by Westview Press

Published 2019 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 84-51278

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29120-4 (hbk)

Contents

by Robert Kennedy

by John M. Weinstein

by Todd R. Starbuck

by Daniel S. Papp

by Robert Kennedy

by Otto P. Chaney

by John M. Weinstein and Henry G. Gole

by Edward A. Corcoran

by William P. Boyd

by Henry G. Gole

by Keith A. Barlow

Guide

Tables

Chapter 2

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 11

Figures

Chapter 3

Chapter 5

Chapter 8

No two issues have dominated the postwar defense debate more than the Soviet-American strategic nuclear competition and the defense of Western Europe. And no two defense issues have been more interrelated.

World War II confirmed for the United States a lesson that had been resisted since Washingtons Farewell Addressnamely, the fact that US security was intimately linked to that of Europe. This postwar transatlantic security perspective provided the rationale for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a bulwark against the threat of Soviet expansionism. The West, unprepared to match the conventional might of the Soviet Union on the Continent, embraced Americas dominance in atomic power as a relatively inexpensive guarantor of Western security. However, the Soviet Unions August 29, 1949 detonation of an atomic weapon challenged Americas security at the most fundamental level while shattering the illusion that Western European security could be assured by an American nuclear monopoly. Henceforth, it was inevitable that the perceived balance of US-Soviet strategic nuclear might and Western European defense would be inextricably linked.

The Soviet Unions attainment of strategic parity with the United States heightened the importance of this strategic-theater linkage while making its maintenance more difficult. This difficulty is now manifest in the increasing debate on both sides of the Atlantic on US strategic force modernization, NATO initiatives to redress nuclear and conventional force imbalances, and the role of arms control in the East-West security equation.

The Defense of the West examines these crucial issues with analyses that go beyond static and sterile weapons counts and reflects a philosophy that strategic issues dealing exclusively with military force levels are defined too narrowly. The authors, all former or current analysts at the US Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute, combine their professional experience and daily interactions with the national security community to provide insightful analyses of these momentous issues. The views, opinions, and/or findings contained in this volume, however, are those of the individual authors and should not be construed as an official Department of the Army or Department of Defense position, policy, or decision unless so designated by other official documentation.

Our grateful appreciation for assisting in preparing this volume is extended to the staff of the Strategic Studies Institute and its director, Col. Keith A. Barlow. We also thank the faculty of the Institute and of the US Army War College, and others in Washington and abroad who, through their thoughtful suggestions, have contributed significantly to this undertaking. In addition, special thanks are due to Mrs. Marianne P. Cowling and Mr. Charles W. Taylor, the Institutes publications editors.

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