Verifying Conventional Stability in Europe: An Overview

Abstract

Verifying the obligations in the prospective Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty will be far harder and more expensive than verifying those in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, or in other previous arms control agreements. This Note presents a qualitative overview of conventional arms control verification issues, including (1) monitoring force levels calibrated in major items of equipment and personnel, in a large production area that makes concealment possible; (2) watching force withdrawals, restructuring, or disbandments involving removal, reexport, or destruction of thousands of heavy equipment items; (3) monitoring the post-agreement stasis of the largest and most complex force concentration in peacetime history; and (4) meshing these observations with the concurrent need to monitor unilateral Warsaw Pact force reductions and force changes on a massive scale.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA236957

Entities

People

  • Thomas J. Hirschfeld

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Arms Control
  • Attack Aircraft
  • Cruise Missiles
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Force Structure
  • Forward Areas
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Personnel Management
  • Photographs
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Standards
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Warfare

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design