STRATEGIC CONCEPTS STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN THE NATO EVOLUTION
STRATEGIC CONCEPTS STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN THE NATO EVOLUTION
Author(s): Sorin IoanContributor(s): Diana Cristiana Lupu (Translator)
Subject(s): Military history, Security and defense, Military policy, Cold-War History, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: strategic concept; Cold War; collective defence; massive retaliation; flexible response; security environment;
Summary/Abstract: The author writes that the changes in the current security environment required the development of a new NATO strategic concept. However, since the establishment of the organisation and up to the new strategic concept, NATO negotiated and adopted six concepts: four of them under the pressure and influences of the Cold War and two after the end of it. To an extent that is not negligible at all, the Alliance owes its successes to the ability to formulate strategic concepts symbiotically adapted to the changing security conditions, providing them with legitimate value and credibility through the dynamics of the generated processes. After a review of all of these strategic concepts, the author mentions that the holistic analysis of their history, the new strategic concept included, helps to draw some general conclusions and he points out a few of them.
Journal: Romanian Military Thinking
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 73-80
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
