Publisher's Synopsis
International scholars of conventional defence have contributed to this volume. Topics discussed include: the changing political and strategic dimension of East-West relations from both an American and Soviet perspective; different assessment of the military balance in central Europe from American and West German vantage points; the domestic constraints for the defence of central Europe in the U.S. and in the Federal Republic of Germany; the role of new conventional technologies for defence policy and arms control in the 1990s; and the strategic changes in technology and arms control and their implications for the defence of central Europe.