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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Defense at Low Force Levels
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Defense Positioning and Geometry
Author: Raj Gupta
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815707264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
With the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in Europe and the end of the Cold war, many of the long-standing political and ideological obstacles to minimizing force levels have been removed. The overriding issue is no longer who commands the greatest force divisions; rather, the immediate concern is to establish a minimum threshold to which nations may reduce their force levels and still retain a meaningful defense. In this book, Raj Gupta examines the geometry and positioning of conventional forces, especially at low force levels. Defense Positioning and Geometry uncovers certain spatial relationships that the defending commander must abide by for an effective defense and shows how they can be exploited to construct stable military balances and reduce forces to minimum levels. The author considers a number of important questions that must be addressed to establish a new order of low force levels, such as: What is the absolute minimum force density necessary for a coherent and robust defense? How deep can mutual cuts go without irreparably damaging defense capability and upsetting conventional stability? How should an arms control treaty that cuts deployed forces by 50 percent or more be structured? There is an urgency to develop general, universally applicable principles that dictate how conventional forces should be optimally structured. Such principles, once defined, are certainly applicable directly on the battlefield—in the civil wars in Yugoslavia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent response. However, as the author demonstrates, these fundamental defense positioning rules can be employed more constructively in the task of dismantling the redundant firepower amassed by NATO, the Warsaw Pact countries, the Middle East, North and South Korea, and the China-India-Pakistan axis. The book shows how knowledge of the ideal force geometry at low force levels makes it possible to dete
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815707264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
With the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in Europe and the end of the Cold war, many of the long-standing political and ideological obstacles to minimizing force levels have been removed. The overriding issue is no longer who commands the greatest force divisions; rather, the immediate concern is to establish a minimum threshold to which nations may reduce their force levels and still retain a meaningful defense. In this book, Raj Gupta examines the geometry and positioning of conventional forces, especially at low force levels. Defense Positioning and Geometry uncovers certain spatial relationships that the defending commander must abide by for an effective defense and shows how they can be exploited to construct stable military balances and reduce forces to minimum levels. The author considers a number of important questions that must be addressed to establish a new order of low force levels, such as: What is the absolute minimum force density necessary for a coherent and robust defense? How deep can mutual cuts go without irreparably damaging defense capability and upsetting conventional stability? How should an arms control treaty that cuts deployed forces by 50 percent or more be structured? There is an urgency to develop general, universally applicable principles that dictate how conventional forces should be optimally structured. Such principles, once defined, are certainly applicable directly on the battlefield—in the civil wars in Yugoslavia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent response. However, as the author demonstrates, these fundamental defense positioning rules can be employed more constructively in the task of dismantling the redundant firepower amassed by NATO, the Warsaw Pact countries, the Middle East, North and South Korea, and the China-India-Pakistan axis. The book shows how knowledge of the ideal force geometry at low force levels makes it possible to dete
Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Budget overview. Secretary of Defense and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee of the Department of Defense
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1987
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Dept. of Defense, defense agencies, public witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1991
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1974
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1892
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1892
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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1974
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
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Department of Defense Appropriations for ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Languages : en
Pages : 818
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