ABSTRACT

First published in 1993. This volume, edited jointly by the American strategic expert Robert Kennedy and the German peace researcher Hans Giinter Brauch, takes up conceptual ideas developed by Horst Afheldt and Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, as well as others on both sides of the Atlantic, since the 1960s. Our aim has been to contribute to the development of concepts that would reduce the danger of a third world war by the creation of more stable structures in the context of a defensively oriented conventional defense posture. In this volume a variety of alternative approaches to European conventional defense, driven for the most part by similar strategic considerations, are presented by German and American experts to a larger international audience.

part II|90 pages

Force Posture Alternatives

chapter 3|20 pages

Military Doctrine, Force Postures, and Arms Control in Europe

The AirLand Battle Doctrine and NATO’s FOFA Concept *

chapter 5|12 pages

Improving NATO’s Defense

chapter 6|14 pages

Mutual Structural Defensive Superiority

A New Security Philosophy and Elements of a New Force Structure Design

chapter 7|14 pages

In Support of Stability in Central Europe

The SAS Proposal and Its Implications

chapter 8|16 pages

Nonprovocative Defense

A Conceptual Critique and an Alternative Approach