For only on a basis of the historical facts can it be assessed how well or otherwise the aims of the founding fathers have been achieved, the extent to 2. NO SOFT OPTIONS which important factors affecting those aims have changed, the degree to which the evolution of the Organisation is meeting them and how fit the Organisation is to deal with the likely trends for the future. [...] Before discussing some of the events and circumstances which bore on the evolving machinery of NATO Government between the actual signing of the Treaty and the time when the dust had settled from the trauma of the French military with- drawal eighteen years later, it may be expedient to sketch first how the military and civil organisations began, grew and changed. [...] The imperatives of guiding the development and control of the Military side of the house led quite soon, as will be seen, to the re-activation of the Defence Committee, but the demise, as an institution, of the Finance Ministers' joint Alliance endeavours was permanent. [...] By adopting the report of the Three Wise Men, the Council gave a new dimension to their political span of control, with the result that today it covers practically every subject of common interest and has the prime object of developing a joint posture in the formative stages of the evolution of national policies. [...] In the improbable event that the doubters and the 'no-threat' men dispute this, it is necessary only to refer to the preamble to the Treaty which says: 'It is a treaty of alliance within the frame- work of the United Nations Charter for the defence of a way of life not only by military means but also.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 168) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 1978.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 355/.031/091821
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- ew-----
- ISBN
- 9780773593015 0773505032
- LCCN
- UA646.3
- LCCN Item number
- H54 1978eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 172 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234663 (OCoLC)883909640 (CaOOCEL)448199
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Politico-military realities of NATO
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 2
- Copyright 3
- Contents 4
- Foreword 5
- Author's Preface 7
- I Introduction: The First Twenty-Five Years 9
- II The Threat 24
- III Deterrence 29
- IV The Conventional Balance 36
- V The Nuclear Dilemma 51
- VI The Regional Perspectives 61
- VII Soviet Maritime Expansion 68
- VIII Family Affairs 77
- IX The Higher Direction of NATO 89
- X NATO Strategy 100
- XI Crisis Management 106
- XII Some Particular Problems 119
- XIII Détente 138
- XIV The Way Ahead 145
- Envoi 166
- Appendixes 167
- A Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations 167
- B The North Atlantic Treaty 168
- C The Ottawa Declaration 172
- Notes on Sources 176
- Index 177
