NATO in Strategic Perspective.

Abstract

The Atlantic Alliance was conceived as a politico-military organization to thwart perceived efforts on the part of the Soviet Union to gain hegemony in Central and Western Europe. The paper traces the history of the Alliance and its military operational entity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It develops the strategic concepts used by NATO planners and discusses the critical points of decision from the Lisbon force level agreements to the present. It addresses the peculiar problems which confront NATO: Germany, France, burden sharing, control of nuclear weapons, and conventional force levels. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1972
Accession Number
AD0773316

Entities

People

  • William F. Burns

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Alliances
  • Europe
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Forces (Foreign)
  • Military Organizations
  • Nato
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Treaties
  • Ussr
  • Western Europe

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design