Meeting Gorbachev’s Challenge

Beginning the build down in Europe - negotiating the INF Treaty; military and political consequences of the INF Treaty; starting point - the current NATO-Warsaw Pact force relationship; the new thinking about armed forces in West and East - can it help in East/West negotiations; lessons from failure - Vienna one and what we can learn from it; the CDE parallel track - success of the Stockholm Conference; the two alliances ready themselves; negotiators' headaches - substantive problems of force reductions; essential first steps - data exchange, early warning and constraint measures; how to cut NATO and Warsaw Pact forces; verifying deep cuts; the way ahead - the European confrontation in a global framework.