ABSTRACT
The special feature of the conflicts—and most probably of any future wars—is that they are not being waged by states in the classical sense, but by new emerging political units, whose territorial, ethnic and religious borders are unpredictable at present—to say nothing of their future socio-economic character. To limit politically the danger of further wars on the European continent calls for a demilitarization of existing conflicts as well as preventing further renationalization from leading to military conflicts. The Warsaw Pact war simulations, however, always started with a conventional phase and the use of Soviet nuclear weapons was never "simulated" in the form of preventive strikes, but always in response to NATO's nuclear first strikes. In a conventional war the spatial and temporal distribution of fighting, the concentration of fire and the nature of the targets hit form a complex texture of conditions as to make abstractions like those pertaining to nuclear war misleading.
