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Title

NATO's future conventional defense strategy in Central Europe : theater employment doctrine for the post-cold war era / Richard L. Kugler.

Author

Kugler, Richard L.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• Rand Corporation.
• United States. Army

Description

xxiii, 220 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

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.

Subject

• Europe, Central > Defenses
• Military doctrine > Europe
• Military doctrine > North America
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization > Armed Forces

Note

• "Prepared for the United States Army."
• "R-4084-A."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

083301188X

LCCN

^^^91032786^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library