Supporting Paper: Potential Future Roles for Conventional and Nuclear Forces in Defense of Western Europe

Abstract

The European Security Study is premised on the assumption that NATO’s “military deterrents to Soviet aggression rely on conventional forces and threatened use of nuclear weapons.” A further premise is that “conventional forces” for NATO “have been relatively neglected” but that a “number of technologies and tactics … may offer attractive potentials” for improvements in deterring Soviet aggression.1KeywordsNuclear WeaponNuclear ForceWeapon SystemGround ForceArmored VehicleThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.