Accession Number:

ADB006702

Title:

NATO Strategy for the Future: A Concept

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FORT LEAVENWORTH KS

Personal Author(s):

• Steadman, Kenneth A.

Report Date:

1975-06-06

Pagination or Media Count:

16.0

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to determine how present NATO strategy can be adapted to exploit the weak seam political-social fabric of the Warsaw Pact. The study offers a conceptual approach for a future NATO strategy which more clearly announces NATOs intent to use theater nuclear weapons in Eastern Bloc territory through which a Soviet attack against NATO is launched. By attacking the weak seam of the Warsaw Pact, this study argues that this conflict avoidance strategy would result in self-imposed constraints by Warsaw Pact nations and could result in a closer relationship between East European nations and the West.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY PLANNING
• INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• NATO
• NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• THREAT EVALUATION
• TREATIES
• WESTERN EUROPE

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE