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Hans
Günter Brauch - Robert Kennedy (Eds.)
Alternative
Conventional Defense
Postures in the European Theater
Volume 2: The Impact of Political Change on
Strategy, Technology, and Arms Control
With
a Foreword by General Wolfgang Altenburg,
former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
New York
- Bristol, PA - Washington, DC, London:
A member of the Taylor & Francis Group 1992,
300 pp., ISBN 0-8448-1600-0
$ 45.00 - £ 35.00
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This book
is organised in 4 parts and contains 10 chapters, a chronology
of the Political Change in Europe (December 1988-December
1990), biographies of the editors and authors and an index.
After
an introduction by both editors Part I on Political Change
and the Future European Security System include chapters by
Hans Günter Brauch (Mosbach, Germany) on "German
Unity, Conventional Disarmament, Confidence-Building Defense,
and a New European order of Peace and Security" and by
Ambassador Jonathan Dean (Washington, DC, USA) on: "Components
of a Post-Cold War Security System for Europe".
Part II
on: Military Doctrines and Strategies Reassessed contains
4 chapters by Andrey Afanasyevich Kokoshin and Valentin Venioaminovich
Larionov (Moscow, during the Yeltzin presidency for many years
Dr. Kokoshin was deputy defence minister) on "Confrontation
of Conventional Forces in the Context of Ensuring Strategic
Stability", by Bruce W. Menning (USA) on "Redefined
Soviet Military Doctrine in Perspective: Military-Political
Science, Forecasting, and Offensive-Defensive Paradigms",
by Gary L. Guertner (USA, now Garmisch-Partenkirchen) on:
"NATO Strategy in a New World Order", and by Horst
Afheldt (Munich, Germany) on: "Conflict of Interests,
Nuclear Weapons, and Flexible Response: A Critical German
View".
Part III
deals in two chapters with Technology, Deterrence and Defense
with contributions by Peter A. Wilson (Washington, DC, USA)
on: "Emerging New Technologies for the Defense of Central
Europe and Geostrategic Implications", and by Kosta Tsipis
and Mark Anderson (Cambridge, MA, USA) on: "New Technologies
and Defense Policy for the European Theater".
Part IV
on Arms Control Implications for the Defense of Central Europe
includes two Chapters by Ambassador Ludger Buerstedde (German
Foreign Ministry) on: "Conventional Arms Control Negotiations
in Europe (CFE), March 1989-April 1990: a View from Bonn",
and by William F. Burns (Washington, DC, USA) on: "Europe,
Arms Control, and American Security".
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hgb0017;
Language: English; Areas: conventional defence,
non-offensive defence, strategy, technology, arms control;
Region: Germany, Soviet Union, United States.
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