The Nature and Practice of Flexible Response: NATO Strategy and Theater Nuclear Forces Since 1967

Daalder (Director of Research, Center for International Security Studies, U. of Maryland) disentangles NATO's debate over the strategic concept of flexible response and examines how this debate affected the role of theater nuclear forces in NATO strategy. He describes the efforts by the NATO countries to restructure and modernize the Alliance's theater nuclear stockpile. Heavily documented, with an extensive bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.