Maritime Factors Affecting Iberian Security,
Abstract
Enduring geopolitical realities have given special weight to maritime affairs in the history of security planning for the Iberian Peninsula. This paper will review the threats to Iberian security that would arise directly or indirectly from maritime axes in the context of a major war between East and West today and in the near future. This context is selected, not because it is the most probable, but because it provides the most severe and comprehensive threats against which to assess military requirements and, more important, because it is exactly the eventuality whose occurrence state security policy should be designed to prevent. Time and space do not permit attention to conflicts of lower intensity nor indeed to the 'peacetime' threats to the Iberian region that arise from the politico-military actions of other states, and this is regrettable because the latter, especially, are much more likely to occur and are in the aggregate, in the author's opinion, equally threatening to the world balance of power.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA092733
Entities
People
- Bradford Dismukes
- Charles C. Petersen
Organizations
- Center for Naval Analyses