The Foundations of Defensive Defence
Published in June 1990
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-333-52998-0 (ISBN)
Description
An important aspect of the improvement in East-West relations is the reduction in the capacity of the conventional forces of NATO and the Warsaw Pact to attack each other is now an objective of policy on both sides. The declared doctrine of the Warsaw Pact for its conventional forces has changed from offensive to defensive. In this collection of papers, the theory of defensive strategy and the ways of implementing it are explored by scholars and military professionals from East and West. The papers are drawn mostly from the Pugwash workshop on Conventional Forces in Europe which has been one of the main channels for communication of these new ideas on strategy betwwen East and West.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-52998-0 (9780333529980)
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Anders Boserup | R.R. Neild
The Foundations of Defensive Defence
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Content
Part 1 Principles: deterrence and defence, Anders Boserup; defence dilemmas, Alexei Arbatov; conventional arms control - the agenda and its dangers, Albrecht von Muller; the confrontation of conventional forces in the context of ensuring strategic stability, Andrey Kokoshin and Valentin Larionov. Part 2 Combat dynamics: conventional stabiltiy, Albrecht von Muller; the implications of the increased accuracy of non-nuclear weapons, Robert Neild; mutual defensive superiority and the problem of mobility along an extended front, Anders Boserup; military stability and defence dominance at the tactical level, Anders Boserup; the defence efficiency hypothesis and conventional stability in Europe - implications for arms control, Reiner Huber and Hans Hofmann. Part 3 Defences on land: an east-west negotiating proposal, Albrecht von Muller and Andrzej Karkoszka; a possible stable configuration of Warsaw pact-NATO general purposes forces after radical reductions from the Atlantic to the Urals, Alexander Konovalov. Part 4 Air forces: airpower and conventional stability, Carlo Jean; a zonal approach to the neutralisation of air power in Europe, Anders Boserup and J.J.Graabaek; possible ways to stabilise the balance in tactical aviation on the European continent, Alexander Konovalov. Part 5 Navies: the vulnerability of surface forces to modern stand-off weapons, Elmar Schmahling; maritime defence without naval threat - the case of the Baltic, Anders Boserup. Part 6 Negotiation: Glasnost, talks and disarmament, Georgy Arbatov; Vienna force reduction talks - moving towards deep cuts, Jonathan Dean; conventional forces in Europe - deep cuts and security, Hugh Beach.