NATO's Flexible Response Strategy and Its Communications Systems - An Ends/Means Mismatch?
Abstract
NATO's military strategy has evolved over the years and is currently referred to as flexible response. The basic tenets of flexible response call for NATO to posses s the military capabilities to deter war, but should deterrence fail, to fight an aggressor at any level of conflict. Much attention has been paid to procuring weapon systems which support the flexible response strategy but the communications systems needed by NATO's actual warfighting capability may be seriously degraded when it is needed the most.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA180732
Entities
People
- Richard N. Compton
Organizations
- United States Army War College