Abstract
The debate within the Alliance as to whether defence should be primarily nuclear or conventional is not new.1 In the 1960s Henry Kissinger summarized the issues of the debate by pointing to the advantages and disadvantages each alternative entailed.2 His conclusions are still greatly relevant today.
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Henry A. Kissinger, ‘Strategy and the Atlantic Alliance’, Survival, no. 5, 24 (1982).
Robert W. Kower, ‘Ten Suggestions For Rationalizing NATO’, Survival, ISS, no. 2. 19 (1977) p. 67.
Steven Canby, ‘NATO: Reassessing the Conventional Wisdoms’, Survival, ISS (1977) p. 164.
Boyd D. Sutton et al., ‘New Directions in Conventional Defence?’, Survival, ISS, no. 2, 26 (Mar./Apr. 1984) p. 164.
Sam Nunn, ‘Conventional Forces And Alliance Strategy’, Survival ISS, no. 5, 24 (1982) p. 234.
Karl Kaiser, Georg Leber, Alois Mertes, Franz-Josef Schulze, ‘Nuclear Weapons and the Preservation of Peace’, Foreign Affairs, 1982.
Phil Williams and William Wallace, ‘Emerging Technologies and European Security’, Survival ISS, no. 2, 26 (Mar./Apr. 1984) p. 75.
C. F. von Weizsacker, The Politics of Peril (New York: Seabury Press, 1978) pp. 228–33.
Lawrence Freedom, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (London: Macmillan 1981) p. 327.
Guido Vigeveno, The Bomb and European Security (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1983.) pp. 83–5.
Bernard Brodie, War and Politics (London: Cassell, 1974) p. 378.
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Williams, G.L., Williams, A.L. (1986). The Fragmentation of Alliance: the Need for a New Military Strategy?. In: The European Defence Initiative. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07825-7_5
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