ABSTRACT
Force levels and force structures in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, however, will be linked in various ways to force levels, force structures and force deployments both in the Soviet Union and in Western Europe. Three options revolve around Germany and the speed of and conditions for reunification, thus corrobating the view that the question of German unity is the fulcrum of any future European security order. The first option is what most Western states seem to have endorsed as their preferred policy. The second option boils down to a neutral Germany possibly sandwiched between NATO and the Warsaw Treaty Organization, and subsequent efforts to create a "common European home" which might eventually make the alliances superfluous. The third option, which might form a possible compromise, would blend elements of the two other options, although it is rather a watered-down version of the first option.
