Military and defence strategy

This is the first comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the potential development by the United States of a space-based laser weapons program.

This book identifies the central problems of crisis research, assesses the progress of work in the area, and discusses prospects for the future.

In this book Professor Kissinger examines the framework of our foreign policy, the stresses to which that framework is being subjected, and the prospects for world order in an era of high international tension.

The survival of NATO as a viable alliance is currently challenged by a shift in the strategic balance of power, as well as by global events and contingencies that extend far beyond NATO's boundaries.

As China is poised to become a global economic force, its leadership is on the brink of imminent and potentially sweeping change.

This book addresses the challenge of international narcotics control by applying "e;the Manwaring paradigm.

This book provides a detailed overview of the debate about the institutional context of Western European security after the Cold War.

This book is the product of a continuing joint effort by the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses and the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies to find roads to a lasting settlement of the dangerous intra-Korean confrontation.

This book contains papers presented at a conference held at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation in 1991.

The drastically altered European security context has forced Western defence planners and analysts to reassess core assumptions, including the future role of NATO.

China's reform policies during the past decade have resulted in the reorganization of economic and political structures and have led to a dramatic reorientation of the nation's foreign policy.

Beginning with a look at continuity and change in French policy since de Gaulle, this book presents the evolution of French security policy in the 1970s and 1980s.

This book contains a remarkable amount of information about Soviet intelligence activities.

Given the disappointing history of arms control negotiations and agreements, disconcerting trends in the balance of power, and emerging technologies that challenge conventional assumptions about deterrence, new ways to promote security through negotiations must be identified and utilized if arms control is ever to play an integral role in enhancing deterrence and reducing instabilities.

A widespread policy prescription among defense experts of the Atlantic Alliance is the strengthening of conventional forces to reduce dependence on the early use of nuclear weapons in the event of Soviet aggression.

Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine.

This book analyzes the military situation in Europe and the contending views about the military balance and important military variables there.

This volume assesses contemporary Soviet domestic and foreign policy and surveys the traditions, challenges, and contexts within which the Soviet leadership was operating.

This book is an outcome of the conference on 'Arms Control and Conventional Defense in Europe' held in West Berlin in 1987.

This book, the final report of the Soviet Global Strategy Project, describes the USSR's basic approach to the many states in Asia and the Pacific Basin, including nations stretching from Japan to Australia.

Since the U.

As Europe underwent extraordinary changes in 1989-1990, the continent's south-eastern region - the Balkans - began once again to draw attention for its ethnic rivalries, its political turmoil and its interstate disputes.

This book is an exploration of the security and defense policies of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg with the specific goal of discovering opportunities for greater Benelux security cooperation which could serve as the foundation of a European Defense Community.

"e;It is with great pleasure that I recognize those who helped make this book possible.

This book represents an overview of European security affairs as of 1989-1990.

The contributors to this volume discuss how a West European security union would fit into the trans Atlantic and trans-European settings.

This book demonstrates that the strategic importance of the Golan Heights lies in three spheres: defense, deterrence, and bargaining asset.

This book examines the implications of emerging security environment for missile defense.

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the U.

This book is about the Franco-German military cooperation.

This book describes the reassessment of the U.

This book discusses the existing literature on military doctrines in general, and offensive doctrines in particular, as well as on causes of their stagnation and sources of innovation.

This book evaluates whether the military preparations made by US in the aftermath of Central Command's (CENTCOM) establishment, represent the kind of change in America's military relationship with the Middle East.

This overview of world affairs provides a comprehensive assessment of the important trends and events during 1986 and the first half of 1987 that will have a decisive impact on U.

Estimates of the potential costs of alternative strategic defense systems should be an intrinsic element in decisions about whether the US should develop and deploy these systems, especially because of the 'opportunity costs' 'involved-what the nation would have to forgo in other military or civilian programs or in private resources because of higher taxes or larger deficits.

Defending the Fringe assesses the importance of the southern flank of NATO to the Western Alliance.

Nuclear-free zones, neutrality, and nonalignment are catchwords that recently have earned unprecedented international publicity for New Zealand's foreign policy.

Israel's Nuclear Arsenal is a full inquiry into the likely size and sophistication of the Israeli nuclear weapons program.

Designed to introduce the reader to the critical issues of arms control and international security in the 1980s, this collection of provocative and challenging articles encourages a rethinking of conventional wisdom on strategic policy.

This book deals with the basic facts of the military-industrial complex, examining its institutional dynamics and constitutional barriers to change.

The strategy of limited war has transformed the American approach to the use of force and played a key role in U.

This study challenges the belief that the security concerns and strategic objectives of lesser states are dependent on the dominant power alliances and on assessments by major powers of the prospects for peace or war.

This book examines the role of the president in the defense policy process, focusing specifically on the administration of President Carter.

The importance to Western policymakers of determining the significance of Soviet strategic arms decisions is matched by the difficulty of doing so.

This book critically examines U.

Current NATO military strategy is based on the policy of flexible response that U.

With the death of Mao Tse-tung and the subsequent purge of the "e;Gang of Four,"e; China's new pragmatic leaders have embarked on a crash program of national development known as the Four Modernizations, This program is geared to the primary objective of turning China into a major world economic and military power by the year 2000.

In recent years, Brazil has grown greatly in international status, and all indications are that it will continue to do so.

The current standstill in U.

Departing from conventional policy rhetoric on the unconventional "e;new world disorder,"e; Max G.