The Spaceship and the Lifeboat: Metaphors for the 1990's. Detente as Future History

Abstract

The paper seeks to order the central trends and forces acting on detente into the 1990's. Viewing the future as history, two metaphorical constructs--the spaceship and the lifeboat--are developed within whose contrasting perspectives will be played out the main drama of detente and whose creative tensions will largely determine its course into the 1990's.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 06, 1975
Accession Number
ADA012228

Entities

People

  • James E. Trinnaman
  • John G. Thompson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Commerce
  • Developing Nations
  • Economic Systems
  • Europe
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Security
  • Spacecraft
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Western Europe

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