Abstract
The period of increased emphasis on defence policy that followed the 1961 Note Crisis did not last very long. Budget allocations to defence forces were slashed from 1965 onwards as President Kekkonen reverted to his own dictum of the superior importance of foreign policy over defence policy. Active foreign policy, consisting of proposals affecting the entire Nordic security constellation, was the new basis on which Finland’s security was to be built.
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See K. Korhonen, Ydinaseettomat vyöhykkeet maailmanpolitiikassa, Helsinki 1966, p. 67.
See also, Apunen, ‘Urho Kekkosen Suomalainen rauhanpolitiikka’ in Korhonen (ed.), Urho Kekkonen. rauhanpoliitikko, Helsinki 1979, p. 48.
See V. Koppinen, ‘Eräitä sissitoiminnan mandollisuuksia aseellisen maanpuolustuksen tukena’, Jalkaväen vuosikirja V, 1965–66, Mikkeli 1965.
Heikki Nikunen, ‘Hävittäjatorjunta tänään’, Tiede ja Ase, No. 44, 1986.
See e.g. Reino Nykänen, ‘Taktillisten ilmavoimien toiminta maavoimia vastaan erityisesti rynnäkköhyökkäyksiä silmällä pitän’, Tiede ja Ase 14/1957.
A. Savunen, ‘Guerrilla methods as supplement to national defence’, SAL 5/1966. The article was a response to Koppinen’s article in the Infantry Yearbook 1966 on the same topic.
V. Koppinen, ‘Sissitoiminta maanpuolustuksen tukena’, SAL 8/1966.
See e.g. N. Suhonen, ‘Miksi taktiikasta ei keskustella’, SAL 4/1968.
Tomas Ries and Johnny Skorve, Investigating Kola. A Study of Military Bases Using Satellite Photography London 1987.
Aimo Pajunen, ‘Näkökohtia suomalaisesta strategiasta ja puolustuspolitiikasta’, a speech given at the Finnish Military Science Society (Suomen Sotatieteellinen Seura) on 1 March 1966.
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Penttilä, R.E.J. (1991). Security Through ‘Active Foreign Policy’, 1964–70. In: Finland’s Search for Security through Defence, 1944–89. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11636-2_8
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