Accession Number:

ADA516878

Title:

NATO's Long-Term Defense Planning: Will It Work?

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA

Personal Author(s):

• Jablonsky, David

Report Date:

1981-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

Mindful of historical experience with coalitions and sobered by the ominous threat posed by the Soviet Union, the Western allies after World War II reached a consensus that there would not be sufficient time in the future for an ad hoc approach to coalition warfare. The result was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which emphasized organizational collaboration in anticipation of a military threat to any of the signatories of the treaty. This aspect of the alliance, combined with the political realities of the post-World War II international environment, committed the member nations to NATOs mutual defense more firmly than was stated in the explicitly treaty clauses. Joint military action of the members of NATO, one authority on international organizations has observed, is not so much a promise of their treaty as a premise of their organization.

Descriptors:

• *DEFENSE PLANNING
• *NATO
• PEACETIME
• THREATS
• COOPERATION
• JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES
• STANDARDIZATION
• MILITARY FORCE LEVELS
• REPRINTS
• NUCLEAR FORCES(MILITARY)
• OPERATIONAL READINESS

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE