Third, the US claims an impossible exemption. This has justified maintaining military spending at virtually Cold War levels to pay for a conventional force that can be dispatched rapidly to all corners of the earth. Yet in her argument here Forsberg gives the US a limited pass. Finally, military strategies change. Creating an advanced military isn't easy or cheap, but a move from a self-limiting defensive posture to an offensive one doesn't take much.
Technology provides neither cause nor cure for war.
Dtente furthered the erosion, particularly in Eastern Europe. The campaigns for disarmament and against nuclear war helped expose the madness of the arms race. But the Red Army went from fiend to sometime friend not through arms control, but by the transformation of a political and economic relationship. No justice, no peace. Arms control proposals like Forsberg's offer, at best, creative way stations along the way.