Before revision: Confidence-building defense (German: “Vertrauensbildende Verteidigung”) is a military school of thought developed in the 1980s focused on conventional defense, with the purpose to defuse the East-West confrontation .
After revision: Confidence-building defense (German: “Vertrauensbildende Verteidigung”) is a military school of thought developed in the 1980s focused on conventional defense, with the founding purpose of defusingand was later applied to other regions of military tension and conflict the East-West confrontation .