Publisher's Synopsis
This volume provides the reader with a survey and analysis of the principal issues of importance to national security policy and defense options for the United States.;Articles encompass such topics as the changing parameters of the global security environment, trends in the US-Soviet strategic relationship, the increasingly difficult problem of reconciling defence needs with available resources, the implications of accelerating and rapidly diffusing technology for defence, the future of alliances, the conduct of low-intensity conflict, arms control policy and the impact of defence reorganization in US defence policy.
