1. The Case for Disengagement.
- Author
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Healey, Denis
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MILITARY policy , *PEACE , *COMMUNISM , *COLD War, 1945-1991 , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,SOVIET Union foreign relations, 1953-1975 ,FOREIGN relations of the United States, 1953-1961 ,UNITED States armed forces - Abstract
Focuses on the proposal for the military disengagement in Central Europe. Proposal for a mutual withdrawal of Soviet forces behind Soviet frontiers and the U.S. forces from Europe. Belief of the people that world peace depended on the balance of mutual terror; Local war of three non-Communist governments against the Soviet Union, with the help of Allies; Assumption underlying current Western policy in Europe is that America will respond by massive thermonuclear retaliation to any major Soviet attack; Factors responsible for the decline of communism in the Soviet Union; Statement that the Soviet control of Eastern Europe depends on the presence of the Red Army; Role of the military disengagement in Europe, on Cold War, going on among the nations. INSET: "DISENGAGEMENT".
- Published
- 1958