U.S. National Security Policies for the 1990s
Abstract
The United States faces an extremely complex international situation in terms of the political, economic, and military elements of national power. With the rapidly changing situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the US must alter its present political approach to that portion of the world, an area that has figured prominently in its military strategy and force structure. The US also faces a situation in which the success of its military power, through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, makes continued support for defense expenditures difficult to sustain. Coupled with increasing pressures for diversion of defense dollars to other uses, the size of the US military force is under intense scrutiny. On the economic front, a significant challenge lies just ahead for the US, in the form of the European Community, which will be fully integrated by the end of 1992. The United States must reassess its national security policies to ensure that it stays out in front of these major events, in the maintenance of its world leadership position.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA241081
Entities
People
- Charles L. Pearce
Organizations
- Air War College