Iberia's Role in NATO's Future: Strategic Reserve, Reinforcement, and Redoubt

Abstract

Most discussions of NATO's prospects in the event deterrence fails and the Soviet Union attacks Central Europe, regardless of where in the world the war might begin, tend to posit two alternative futures. The first is that NATO successfully contains the Soviet incursion and restores the inter-German border, albeit with some initial loss of territory as a function of the essential defensive posture of the alliance. In this scenario, NATO achieves its wartime objectives without recourse to nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union exercises admirable self-restraint and accepts the loss of its first (and perhaps its second) strategic echelon without resorting to its own nuclear weapons in an attempt to stave off defeat.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA521500

Entities

People

  • Alan N. Sabrosky
  • Max G. Manwaring

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Central Europe
  • Information Operations
  • International Organizations
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Security
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies