The Future of Conventional Arms Control

Abstract

Dramatic changes in conventional military capabilities coupled with nuclear parity should greatly increase the importance of conventional military power as well as well as raise new opportunities and problems for arms control. Those changes are not yet widely appreciated and, in fact, there is a lack of analytic tools by which to appraise their implications and importance. As an initial step to systematic analysis of the desirability and feasibility of conventional arms control agreements, this paper describes current trends in weapons development and evaluates interpretations The requirements of effective and reliable arms control agreements are then enumerated and a general assessment made of the difficulties in meeting those requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA022249

Entities

People

  • James L. Foster

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Aircrafts
  • Anti-Tank Weapons
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Conventional Capabilities
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Guided Bombs
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Budgets
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Procurement
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Theoretical Analysis.