Enhancing European Security: Living in a Less Nuclear World [Paperback]

Although the authors believe that the level of conventional and nuclear forces in Europe should and will be reduced, they do not consider that the military instrument will have lost all of its value in European political affairs. They still see a need to be prepared for tension and conflict.Why was INF needed, and would it have been used?; conventional force imbalances - how to count, and can we count?; conventional force imbalances - the numbers; is there a special European interest in European security?; is there a pan-European special interest?; on the nature of the next war; enhanced security through enhanced force; security by buying more of what we know; security enhancement by conventional modernization; arms control and all that; security through behavioural modification; combining control and enhancement.