ABSTRACT

This chapter deals with the report of three aspects of the problem: military security and NATO, military security outside the NATO area, and non-military aspects of security. Security involves a combination of many other factors, including domestic as well as foreign ones: political, economic, social and psychological. It is the combination of these factors which Communist doctrine calls the "correlation of forces". Sound arms limitation agreements which provide stability and arrest the escalation of weaponry without weakening the West's deterrent capability must be sought with vigor and patience, but the search must never be permitted to undermine the security of the West. In Latin America, the major problem of future security is to improve the economic and social lot of the masses and to develop a better relationship between population and resources. The principal current danger to security lies in Cuban overt or covert intervention in other countries.