British NATO Policy: The Next Five Years

Abstract

This is one of a series of seven RAND Notes written as part of the project on Theater Nuclear Deterrence after the INF Treaty, sponsored by the United States Air Force, Europe (USAFE). The work was undertaken in the National Security Strategies Program within Project AIR FORCE. Since the issues of maintaining NATO deterrence are as political as they are military, it was decided to analyze the potential alternative short-run NATO policies of major member nations. These Notes were written independently; they were then discussed at a meeting that examined the implications of each national policy for the others. The resulting synthesis will be set forth in a future report. The Notes themselves, although refined as a result of both the meeting and the passage of time, are essentially independent; each one makes alternative assumptions about the other NATO partners rather tha predicating its analysis on specifics from the other Notes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA258073

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  • Phil Williams

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  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
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  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Arms Control
  • Cold War
  • Defense Planning
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
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  • Western Europe

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