The strategic balance, 1972 (The Washington papers) [Unknown Binding]

Edward Luttwak (Author)

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• Unknown Binding: 132 pages
• Publisher: Library Press (1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912050330
• ISBN-13: 978-0912050331
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Edward N. Luttwak is senior associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has served as a consultant to numerous government offices including: the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. He is the author of numerous books and articles including Strategy and Politics, The Endangered American Dream, and Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy.

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The New Strategic Balance and its Implications: The ABM Treaty and SAL Interim Agreement

Unless one believes that strategic nuclear power matters only insofar as it can, or cannot, discourage a surprise attack, one must therefore accept that much of its political significance will derive directly or indirectly from vague perceptions of its dimensions, rather than from technical computations of relative capabilities...

While leaders of the two super-Powers can perhaps come to operate within the terms of some agreed metric based on their special knowledge of each others' forces and on the prolonged association of their technical delegates in venues such as SAL negotiations, others' perceptions of the strategic balance must derive from the complex of images evoked by the episodic estimates released by one or the other of the super-Powers, primarily the United States.