ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to describe a conceptual scheme akin to strategic analysis in order to portray the worst case of social and political consequences of present trends in the rearmament processes witnessed particularly by the industrially advanced nations in Central Europe. A critique of undue military expenditures or weapon developments is confined to a positive ‘proof’ of the argument or otherwise will fail politically, while the legitimacy of military expenditures and the initiation of new weapon projects are ‘safely’ based upon the seemingly invincible logic of the worst case in strategic reasoning. Scattered incidents of kidnapping and other manifestations of politically motivated violence are often believed to be connected with political conflicts based in the Third World. A number of constitutional rights were also restricted, while politicians – government and opposition alike – continue to reaffirm that the Federal Republic constitutes the most liberal state which ever existed on German soil.
