Territorial Defense in NATO and Non-NATO Europe,

Abstract

Pressures working on defense structures of European NATO countries, particularly those of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), tend to favor a change to latent conscript forces oriented toward territorial defense on one hand, standing volunteer armies on the other. Political, financial, and military potentialities of a combination of such forces are discussed, and a detailed comparison is made of territorial defense concepts and forces, as well as civil defense proparations, for four countries--Switzerland and Yugoslavia (which do not participate in NATO's Military integration) and Norway and France (which do so to a much lesser extent than the FRG). (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0770609

Entities

People

  • Horst Mendershausen

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Defense
  • Continents
  • Defense Systems
  • Eurasia
  • Europe
  • Geographic Regions
  • Homeland Defense
  • Republic
  • Switzerland
  • Volunteers
  • Yugoslavia

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design