Abstract
If it were possible to shape NATO strategies and force postures against a static, unidimensional, apolitical threat, then technical solutions presumably might be readily available to ensure NATO’s security. As we observed in the discussion of NATO’s nuclear dilemma, however, the Soviet threat is neither static, unidimensional, nor apolitical.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Karl Kaiser, Winston Lord, Thierry de Montbrial, and David Watt, Western Security: What has changed? What should be done? ( New York: Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 1981 ), p. 11.
Louis J. Halle, The Cold War as History ( New York: Harper and Row, 1967 ), pp. 12–13.
Stanley Hoffman, “The Crisis in the West,” New York Review of Books, 17 July 1980, p. 44.
Joseph C. Harsch, “Yalta and the View from Germany,” Christian Science Monitor, 8 January 1981, p. 22.
Walter Laqueur, “Hollanditis: A New Stage in European Neutralism,” Commentary, August 1981, p. 19.
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Sloan, S.R. (1986). Differing Perspectives on East-West Relations. In: NATO’s Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08362-6_5
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