Accession Number:

ADB006706

Title:

NATO, MBFR and Some Related Issues

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FORT LEAVENWORTH KS

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1975-06-06

Pagination or Media Count:

89.0

Abstract:

This paper analyzes selected political, strategic, and tactical current issues confronting the NATO alliance. The first chapter deals with the background and issues surrounding Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions MBFR. It concludes with a presentation of some of the proposals that have been made for the defense of NATO with fewer men. Chapter 2 deals with the proposal that NATO adopt a short war strategy rather than a long war strategy. Chapter 3 deals with MBFR and SALT and the tactical nuclear weapons question and its relationship to the long versus short war debate. Chapter 4 presents a discussion of the doctrine, tactics and force structure and their rationale, that one country--The Federal Republic of Germany--has adopted as part of her short war strategy.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• *NATO
• ARMS CONTROL
• DEFENSE PLANNING
• DOCTRINE
• MANPOWER UTILIZATION
• MILITARY FORCE LEVELS
• MILITARY PLANNING
• MILITARY STRATEGY
• MOBILITY
• NUCLEAR WARFARE
• NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• REDUCTION
• TACTICAL ANALYSIS
• TACTICAL WARFARE
• TACTICAL WEAPONS
• WEST GERMANY

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE