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Effects of Warning on Strategic Stability

Effects of Warning on Strategic Stability

Steinbruner, John D.
Blair, Bruce G.

Paperback

Series: Brookings Occasional Papers

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0815709390
ISBN13: 9780815709398
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Jan 1 1991
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Among its many important effects, the political revolution in central Europe has provided a sharp reminder that international security is as much a state of mind as it is a physical condition. The threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, long hypothesized by Western defense ministries on the basis of a perceived imbalance in inherent conventional force capability, is now acknowledged to be a practical impossibility because shifts in political alignment have been credited. In the wake of that judgement, the force deployments themselves are virtually certain to be reduced, equalized, and disengaged, thereby removing firepower advantage as a threat to international stability. Moreover, though the intrinsic connection is remote, a similar judgement seems to be affecting global strategic deployments. As strategic forces are projected to be reduced to common ceilings by mutual agreement, the fear of preemptive attacks on theoretically vulnerable land-based installations appears to be receding more rapidly than the inherent capability that originally inspired it.

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