ABSTRACT
In their conclusions, Professor Bull and Admiral Synnot have addressed major themes relating to their own fields of expertise. Despite the widening gap between the super-powers and the remainder of the international community in terms of weapons technology and strategic power, each will have to pay more attention to the views of its allies and to those of non-aligned states than in the 1970s. The strategic stalemate between the Soviet Union and the United States has always provided opportunities for others, such as Britain and India, to acquire some moderating influence. China, India and Japan in particular are playing a bigger role in international relations then ever before, particularly in a strategic sense. Hence it behoves all who are professionally concerned with strategic thinking, particularly those who work in universities and the media, to make a major effort to stimulate wider discussion of these problems in the 1980s.
