In Pursuit of Strategic Stability in NATO

Abstract

Abstract : The term strategic stability is surrounded by tremendous controversy. In the text of this monograph it is defined as a situation between adversaries in which they are deterred from war on a strategic level ( involving attacks against industrial base, center of population, or strategic military forces). The purpose of this paper is to examine U.S. national military strategy and assess to what extent current military doctrine on the employment of conventional forces has kept pace with the realities of the nuclear age. I will examine the viability and role of conventional forces in NATO and five assessment of their deterrence credibility and contribution to the NATO traid defense posture of conventional, theater nuclear and strategic nuclear forces. This analysis should prove to be militarily significant by providing an in depth look at current U.S. strategy concerning conventional forces deployed in NATO.