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There is general consensus in the West that there has been an adverse trend in the NATO/WP military balance over the past 15 years, but less agreement on the sizing of NATO’s deficiencies. The strategy of flexible response (MC 14/3) developed in 1967, argued that each leg of the triad (strategic nuclear, theatre nuclear - TNF, conventional forces) should offer both independent and mutually supporting deterrent and defence roles. It has always recognized quantitative inferiority in readily deployable conventional forces, offset at the outset by a measure of strategic and theatre nuclear superiority and qualitative advantages stemming from NATO’s lead in technology.
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Gibson, J.W. (1986). Pre-Arms Control Assessment of the Conventional Balance in Europe. In: Avenhaus, R., Huber, R.K., Kettelle, J.D. (eds) Modelling and Analysis in Arms Control. NATO ASI Series, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82943-7_12
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