The German Army And Nato Strategy

Author : S. M. Kanarowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0898754968

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The German Army and NATO Strategy by S. M. Kanarowski Pdf

An economic giant, West Germany now fields the largest ground component of the NATO Central Europe Forces. The German Army?s role in NATO strategic planning, therefore, is of keen interest to Western defense analysis, and is the subject of this monograph prepared in 1982 for the National Defense University by Colonel Stanley M. Kanarowski, U.S. Army. Colonel Kanarowski reviews the evolution of NATO strategy, using recently declassified materials from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, which are now available at the National Archives. As he organizes and sifts through this wealth of material, he focuses on the interaction between the evolution of NATO strategy and the development of the German Army. An appreciation of the German Army contribution, which is the focus of this study, can lead to a better understanding of NATO. Is Germany on the path to an increased leadership role in NATO? How will planned increases in German Reserve Forces affect NATO strategy? The author explores these and other questions in his study of an important European ally in a crucial U.S. alliance.

Author : Stanley M. Kanarowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1087079223

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The German Army and NATO Strategy by Stanley M. Kanarowski Pdf

An economic giant, West Germany now fields the largest ground component of the NATO Central Europe forces. The German Army's role in NATO strategic planning, therefore, is of keen interest to Western defense analysts, and is the general subject of this monograph. The author reviews the evolution of NATO strategy, using recently declassified materials from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Council which are now available at the National Archives. As he organizes the sifts through this wealth of material, he focuses on the interaction between the evolution of NATO strategy and the development of the Germany Army. An appreciation of the German Army contribution, which is the focus of this study, can lead to a better understanding of NATO. Is Germany on the path to an increased leadership role in NATO? How will planned increases in German Reserve Forces affect NATO strategy? How might German strategic thinking affect the design of future forces? The author explores these and other questions in his study of an important European ally in a crucial US alliance. (Author).

Author : John A. Reed, Jr.
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 078812157X

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Germany and NATO by John A. Reed, Jr. Pdf

Author : Stephen F. Szabo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349110322

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Bundeswehr and Western Society by Stephen F. Szabo Pdf

The American institute for contemporary German studies, which sponsors research and discussion on German politics, foreign policy and history since 1945, has compiled this book on the German army and its involvement with NATO, German politics and future strategic alternatives.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Europe
ISBN : LOC:00100390188

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Implications of Treaty on Final German Settlement for NATO Strategy and U.S. Military Presence in Europe by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Jason Blessing,Katherine Kjellström Elgin,Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters,Rakel Tiderman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781947661110

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NATO 2030 by Jason Blessing,Katherine Kjellström Elgin,Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters,Rakel Tiderman Pdf

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the world’s largest, most powerful military alliance. The Alliance has navigated and survived the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the post-9/11 era. Since the release of the 2010 Strategic Concept, NATO’s strategic environment has again undergone significant change. The need to adapt is clear. An opportunity to assess the Alliance’s achievements and future goals has now emerged with the Secretary General’s drive to create a new Strategic Concept for the next decade—an initiative dubbed NATO 2030. A necessary step for formulating a new strategic outlook will thus be understanding the future that faces NATO. To remain relevant and adjust to new circumstances, the Alliance must identify its main challenges and opportunities in the next ten years and beyond. This book contributes to critical conversations on NATO’s future vitality by examining the Alliance’s most salient issues and by offering recommendations to ensure its effectiveness moving forward. Written by a diverse, multigenerational group of policymakers and academics from across Europe and the United States, this book provides new insights about NATO’s changing threat landscape, its shifting internal dynamics, and the evolution of warfare. The volume’s authors tackle a wide range of issues, including the challenges of Russia and China, democratic backsliding, burden sharing, the extension of warfare to space and cyberspace, partnerships, and public opinion. With rigorous assessments of NATO’s challenges and opportunities, each chapter provides concrete recommendations for the Alliance to chart a path for the future. As such, this book is an indispensable resource for NATO’s strategic planners and security and defense experts more broadly.

Author : Barry A. Leach
Publisher : Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035427892

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German Strategy Against Russia, 1939-1941 by Barry A. Leach Pdf

En beskrivelse og vurdering af den tyske strategi overfor Sovjetunionen 1939-1941 herunder den tyske generalstabs (OKW) planlægning af "Operation BARBAROSSA."

Author : Timo Noetzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Germany
ISBN : OCLC:1099965436

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The German Army and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan by Timo Noetzel Pdf

Alongside their NATO allies German troops are facing a growing insurgency in Afghanistan. However, the alliance still lacks a joint strategy to deal with this challenge.

Author : Janne Haaland Matlary,Rob Johnson
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787386426

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Military Strategy in the 21st Century by Janne Haaland Matlary,Rob Johnson Pdf

What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards, does military strategy have any relevance? This is the first volume to examine current military risks and threats for NATO from a military strategy vantage point. Which strategies are needed? Is ways—ends—means thinking possible as a strategic template today? The contributors probe the relative importance, utility and options of military strategy across NATO as it confronts a variety of challenges old and new, as hybrid threats, new nuclear risks and conventional force combine in complex ways. They also examine what military strategy and military integration really mean, when NATO’s multilateral framework is being weakened by degrees of self-interest. They analyse the USA’s political and military role in Europe, and assess military strategic responses to Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Middle East. Moreover, they study the role of member states’ military strategy set against Article 5 and non-Article 5 risks and threats, and explore how European states devise and implement military strategic options. This book makes a clear assessment of political level strategy and its implications for military integration.

Author : Alex Raymond McKeown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89094336567

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An Analysis of the Conventional Military Balance on the European Central Front by Alex Raymond McKeown Pdf

Author : Kerry Longhurst
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847795908

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Germany and the use of force by Kerry Longhurst Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. While developments in the 1990s saw Germany move away from its rigidly prohibitive stance towards the use of force, Berlin's policy in the war on terrorism suggested that Germany may be retreating into a new form of self-imposed restraint. In this first major English language study of German security policy after Iraq, Kerry Longhurst considers the evolution of Germany's peculiar approach to the use of force after the Cold War through the conceptual prism of strategic culture. The timeliness of this volume brings with it fresh analysis of the origins and substance of Germany's strategic culture, which the author subsequently explores in a contemporary context against the background of the changing role of the Bundeswehr from 1990-2003. The book also provides unique and in-depth analysis of Germany's troubled efforts at defense sector reform in the 1990s and considers the complex politics surrounding conscription.

Author : Stanley M. Kanarowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCR:31210024770271

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The German Army and NATO Strategy by Stanley M. Kanarowski Pdf

In the era after World War II, the NATO alliance, a framework of alliances around the world, provided a fundamental element in the free world efforts to keep peace. From the outset and for a variety of reasons, however, these alliances have not always sufficed, have been circumvented, or have been set aside. Now they are being strained in new directions, Recent developments in NATO exemplify alliance strains. NATO Allies are confronted on the one haand with the threat the enormous modernization of Warsaw Pact forces presents. This modernization challenges former NATO qualitative superiority and, if unansweredm, could intimidate the alliance into being too cautious were it faced with major Soviet aggression. Despite this threat, on the other hand, some believe NATO is investing too much in defense against an unlikely threat to central Europe. In this context, a close examination of a significant European ally, Germany, and mutual US-German interests can be useful. A general discussion can provide some insight into an aspect of these interests -- military developements pertaining to NATO, the strategy for defending central Europe, and the German contribution.

Author : Tom Dyson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857450234

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The Politics of German Defence and Security by Tom Dyson Pdf

The post-Cold War era has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the German political consensus about the legitimacy of the use of force. However, in comparison with its EU and NATO partners, Germany has been reticent to transform its military to meet the challenges of the contemporary security environment. Until 2003 territorial defence rather than crisis-management remained the armed forces' core role and the Bundeswehr continues to retain conscription. The book argues that 'strategic culture' provides only a partial explanation of German military reform. It demonstrates how domestic material factors were of crucial importance in shaping the pace and outcome of reform, despite the impact of 'international structure' and adaptational pressures from the EU and NATO. The domestic politics of base closures, ramifications for social policy, financial restrictions consequent upon German unification and commitment to EMU's Stability and Growth Pact were critical in determining the outcome of reform. The study also draws out the important role of policy leaders in the political management of reform as entrepreneurs, brokers or veto players, shifting the focus in German leadership studies away from a preoccupation with the Chancellor to the role of ministerial and administrative leadership within the core executive. Finally, the book contributes to our understanding of the Europeanization of the German political system, arguing that policy leaders played a key role in 'uploading' and 'downloading' processes to and from the EU and that Defence Ministers used 'Atlanticization' and 'Europeanization' in the interests of their domestic political agendas.

Author : Frans Osinga,Tim Sweijs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462654198

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NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020 by Frans Osinga,Tim Sweijs Pdf

This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies. The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of paramount concern to scholars, strategists and policymakers. Ours is a period of considerable strategic turbulence, which in recent years has featured a renewed emphasis on nuclear weapons used in defence postures across different theatres; a dramatic growth in the scale of military cyber capabilities and the frequency with which these are used; and rapid technological progress including the proliferation of long-range strike and unmanned systems. These military-strategic developments occur in a polarized international system, where cooperation between leading powers on arms control regimes is breaking down, states widely make use of hybrid conflict strategies, and the number of internationalized intrastate proxy conflicts has quintupled over the past two decades. Contemporary conflict actors exploit a wider gamut of coercive instruments, which they apply across a wider range of domains. The prevalence of multi-domain coercion across but also beyond traditional dimensions of armed conflict raises an important question: what does effective deterrence look like in the 21st century? Answering that question requires a re-appraisal of key theoretical concepts and dominant strategies of Western and non-Western actors in order to assess how they hold up in today’s world. Air Commodore Professor Dr. Frans Osinga is the Chair of the War Studies Department of the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Special Chair in War Studies at the University Leiden. Dr. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.

Author : Isabel Campbell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825658

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Unlikely Diplomats by Isabel Campbell Pdf

In 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they sent military families overseas and implemented personnel policies that permanently changed the distribution of the defence budget and the character of the Canadian Army. This original account of the evolution of the Canadian Army from a small training cadre to a truly national force offers a new perspective on military policy and diplomacy in the Cold War era.