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This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future.

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This is the most comprehensive view of nuclear weapons policy and strategy currently available. The author¿s division of the nuclear issue into the three ages is a never seen before analytical construct. With President Obama reelected, the reduction and even elimination of nuclear weapons will now rise to the top of the agenda once more. Moreover, given the likelihood of reductions in US defense spending, the subject of the triad, which is cov...

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Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations, the role perceptions of military professionals across generations, the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-challenged political systems, the usefulness of business models in military management, the attributes of civil-military relations during unconventio...

This volume traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, specifically the negotiation, implementation and adaptation of the CFE (Conventional Forces in Europe) Treaty.

War, as Clausewitz reminds, is the most uncertain of human political and social activities. This study looks at the experience of the United States and other member states of NATO in four situations of multinational military intervention - Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, and South Asia - and considers the implications of nuclear arms reductions and nonproliferation for the US and NATO.

This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.

Russia grapples with the radical post-Cold War world order

This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future. Russia's military has been in decline since the end of the Cold War. Its fledgling democracy and struggling economy have also served as an inertial drag on military reform. Nevertheless, Russia has a strong military tradition dating back to Tsarist times, and that tradition includes World War II and Cold War achievements of the So...

At the end of the Cold War security concerns are more about regional and civil conflicts than nuclear or Eurasian global wars. Stephen Cimbala argues that deterrence characteristics of the pre-Cold War period will in the 21st century again become normative.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Considers the implications of deploying missile defenses, primarily nationwide missile defenses or NMD, by the United States and-or Russia within the current and next decade. The study offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative policy analysis with implications for military strategy and nuclear arms control in the present, and looking ahead to the period 2015 - 2020.

In Russia and Armed Persuasion, Stephen J. Cimbala argues that Russia's war planners and political leaders must make painful adjustments in their thinking about the relationship between military art and policy.

An in-depth assessment of Bush's military policy and defense strategy

An in-depth assessment of Bush's military policy and defense strategy