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Hans
Günter Brauch - Robert Kennedy (Eds.)
Alternative
Conventional Defense Postures
in the European Theater
Volume 3: Force Posture Alternatives for Europe
After the Cold War
With
a Foreword by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker,
physicist and philosopher, and
Paul C. Warnke , former director,
US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
New York
- Bristol, PA - Washington, DC, London:
A member of the Taylor & Francis Group 1993,
336 pp., ISBN 0-8448-1728-7
$ 54.50 - £ 39.00
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This book
is organised in 3 parts and contains 10 chapters, biographies
of the editors and authors, an appendix with five documents
and an index. After an introduction by both editors Part I
on Surveys of Force Posture Alternatives include chapters
by Hans Günter Brauch (Mosbach, Germany) on "Debate
on Alternative Conventional Military Force Structure Designs
for the Defense of Central Europe in the Federal Republic
of Germany" and by Robert Kennedy (then Atlanta, USA,
now director of the Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
on "The American Debate on Conventional Alternatives
for the Defense of Central Europe".
Part II
on: Force Posture Alternatives contains 6 chapters by Manfred
R. Hamm (Ebenhausen, Germany) on "Military Doctrine,
Force Postures, and Arms Control in Europe: The AirLand Battle
Doctrine and NATO's FOFA Concept", by John M. Weinstein
(Washington, DC, USA) on: "Nuclear Forces and the Defense
of Europe", by Franz Uhle-Wettler (General (ret.), Germany)
on: "Improving NATO's Defense", by Horst Afheldt
(Munich, Germany) on: "Mutual Structural Defensive Superiority:
A New Security Philosophy and Elements of a New Force Structure
Design", by Lutz Unterseher (Bonn now Berlin, Germany)
on: "In Support of Stability in Central Europe: The SAS
Proposal and Its Implications", and by Stephen L. Canby
(Washington, DC, USA) on: "Nonprovocative Defense: A
Conceptual Critique and Alternative Approach".
Part III
deals in two chapters with the International and Domestic
Changes with contributions by Hans Günter Brauch (Mosbach,
Germany) on "Germany's Political Role and Military Force
Planning in the Post Cold War Order in Europe and the Continued
Relevance of Non-Offensive Defense" and by Robert Kennedy
(then Atlanta, USA, now director of the Marshall Center in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen) on "European Security, NATO,
and the Future of the New International Cooperative System
after the Second Russian Revolution".
The appendix
contains a chronology of Political Change in Europe (January
1991 through October 1991), as well as the texts of the Treaties
on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, between the
Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland Concerning
the Confirmation of the Frontier Existing Between Them, and
between the Federal Republic of Germany and the USSR on a
Good Neighbour Policy, Partnership, and Cooperation as well
as the Charter of Paris for a New Europe.
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