ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an integrated overview and a reappraisal of the key elements, political, economic, military and technical. These are the elements which must, of necessity, be reflected in any cogent US and Western policy governing technology transfer to the East. The chapter further considers what a proper course of action should be at this juncture in East-West relations. A number of criticisms have been voiced, including that the Department of Defense has too limited a knowledge base of current technology practice in the Eastern bloc countries as well as in other Western countries to implement the new approach; that strategic criteria for control of technology should give recognition to the opportunity for US firms to sell obsolete technology or technology available elsewhere; and that the US control list should not have unilateral entries which the critical technologies approach would further encourage.
