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Review: International Security: La Bataille Des Euromissiles

Some of the authors express concern about the bureaucratic aspect of policy-making in the international security field. For example, Richard Burt argues that arms control has developed a mindless momentum of its own. Colin Gray contends that the United States Department of Defense is ill equipped to think strategically and suggests that the principal villain impairing defence planning 'is the unwillingness, or inability, of the United States and NATO to think strategically.' But in reality the simple application of logic does not always, or perhaps even often, provide viable, evident solutions. The world is full of complexity and differing perceptions, as this volume itself amply demonstrates, and these are bound to affect policy-making especially when it is conducted in a multilateral framework. To illustrate this point, it suffices to note that the eleven contributors draw a number of different conclusions about the exact state of Western security and the policies which are needed for the future. Several appear to believe that arms control is dead, that accommodations between East and West are virtually impossible, and that the only hope lies in a continuing defence build-up. One can only say that if this is the message they wish to convey, then it is certainly a very gloomy one. Lawrence Freedman seems more in tune with the fears and hopes of most of mankind when he remarks, in his essay, that 'we need to use the current conditions of strategic stability and a sour political atmosphere to prepare ourselves for the opportunities that might arise when political conditions are substantially improved.'