ABSTRACT
The level of reasonable sufficiency in questions of military organization can best be determined after a clear formulation of those vital state interests for which military force can be used, and a detailed analysis of the nature and scale of the external military threat. Obviously, the levels of armaments and approaches to organizing the armed forces of all of the participants in the European security process are very far from the minimum levels necessary for reasonable sufficiency. The question of the size of the residual counterattack capability is especially important, because it is that ideas of non-offensive defense contradict traditional military stereotypes. The principles of non-offensive defense do not assume the complete elimination of a counterattack capability, but merely limitations of its operational scale to a level necessary for the restoration of national borders in the event of an invasion.
