Non-offensive defence for the twenty-first century
By: edited by Bjørn Møller and Håkan Wiberg
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780429039300
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Non-provocative defense (Military science); Military policy; World politics; Défense non offensive (Science militaire); Politique militaire; Politique mondiale; HISTORY; Military; Other; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Military Science
Other titles: Non-offensive defence for the 21st century
Description: The concept of non-offensive defense (NOD) originated in Europe as a means of defusing the East-West conflict. In this volume, some of the founders and leading proponents of NOD show how alternative regimes could be modified and applied in conflict areas around the world - among the former Warsaw Pact countries and in the former Soviet Union, as well as in the Middle East, Asia, and elsewhere.

The contributors also assess the effects that an increased role for the United Nations might have on future national defense restructuring initiatives. Demands for reformulating defense strategies, born at the end of the Cold War and fed by nuclear arms limitation agreements and public insistence on lower defense expenditures, have continued to grow. The contributors argue that opting for more offensive postures would make war more rather than less likely; opting for a strategy centered on defensive armed forces would be far more likely to prevent future wars and to facilitate broader arms control and disarmament agreements. The discussions offer workable guidelines for restructuring the armed forces to eliminate their offensive - mutually threatening - features and to preserve or increase their more beneficial defensive capabilities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bjorn Miller and Hakan Wiberg; title: 1. Does NOD Have a Future in the Post-Cold War World? / Barry Buzan; title: 2. Disarmament, Arms Control and NOD / Reiner K. Huber and Hilmar Linnenkamp; title: 3. Using Arms Control to Promote NOD in Europe / Jonathan Dean; title: 4. Conventional Stability and NOD / Eric Remacle; title: 5. NOD and the Land Forces; Confidence-Building Defence for the New Europe / Lutz Unterseher; title: 6. Weapons for Land Warfare / Steven Canby; title: 7. NOD in the Air / Hermann Hagena; title: 8. NOD at Sea / Ken Booth; title: 9. Is War Possible in Europe? The Limits of Warfighting / Siegfried Fischer; title: 10. NOD in the USSR and Successor States / Dmitri Trenin; title: 11. NOD in the USSR and Its Successors / Leonid Ivlev; title: 12. Eastern Europe and NOD / Janusz Prystrom; title: 13. Germany and NOD / Bjorn Miller; title: 14. NOD and the Western Mediterranean / Vicenc Fisas Armengol; title: 15. Neutral and Non-Aligned States in Europe and NOD / Hakan Wiberg; title: 16. Southern Asia and NOD / Jasjit Singh; title: 17. NOD and the Asia-Pacific Region / Geoffrey Wiseman.