ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers the most dangerous situation for all European states is one where old security structures have ceased to perform their original tasks but no new pan-European system has been constructed to replace them. It provides a number of concrete steps must be taken by the Soviet Union, before NATO can afford to completely rethink its own military force structure and strategy. In the East, the political, military and economic domination of the region by the Soviet Union distorted all aspects of life, including defense. The old military structures of the Warsaw Treaty Organization therefore have been abandoned with alacrity, and a search led by the East Europeans, is under way to devise a new, pan-European system to protect them from any attempt by the Soviet Union to reassert its control.
