NATO's future conventional defense strategy in Central Europe [electronic resource] : theater employment doctrine for the post-Cold War era / Richard L. Kugler

Author: Kugler, Richard L.
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1992.
Physical Description: xxiii, 220 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Additional Creators: Arroyo Center. Strategy and Doctrine Program, Rand Corporation, and United States. Army

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Summary

This report provides a political-military analysis for thinking about how NATO's conventional defense strategy can be adjusted to contribute to stability in Central Europe in the coming post-Cold War era. The report (which was assembled in early 1991) concludes that NATO will need to employ a new "theater employment doctrine"--the way NATO uses military force on the battlefield to attain its goals--one that defends further eastward and more flexibly than linear defense contemplated. All viable alternatives for such a doctrine will require NATO to uproot long-established defense practices. Changes will have to be made not only in NATO's force posture, but also in how coalition defense is conducted. Having a concerted planning effort that forges a coherent relationship among NATO's future defense strategy, employment doctrine, and force posture can ensure these changes are well-managed, thus leaving NATO with a viable conventional defense strategy even if forces are smaller than they are now.

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RAND/R-4084-A

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083301188X

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"This study was written within the Arroyo Center's Policy and Strategy Program"--Pref.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220).

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