Nordic Security and the Great Powers
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arms control
arms control policy
Author_John C. Ausland
Baltic fleet
Baltic Sea security
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electronic warfare analysis
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Kola Peninsula
Leningrad Military District
military intelligence operations
NATO Activity
NATO Aircraft
NATO Area
NATO Commander
NATO Country
NATO Effort
NATO Exercise
NATO Force
NATO Government
NATO Ground
NATO Interest
NATO Military
NATO Military Authority
NATO Nuclear Planning Group
NATO Reinforcement
NATO responses
NATO Strategy
NATO's Ability
NATO's Capability
NATO's Northern Flank
NATO's Threat
Naval Forces
Nordic Nuclear Free Zone
northern Europe defense strategy
Norwegian Sea
peacetime military exercises
Scandinavian geopolitics
Soviet intelligence services
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- ISBN 9780367008789
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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With the accelerated Soviet buildup of its Baltic fleet, the development of Soviet bases on the Kola Peninsula, and the related expansion of Allied forces, Scandinavia has once again become a potential theater of war. Looking at the strategic implications of the Soviet threat in northern Europe and possible NATO responses, the author examines the competitive activities of intelligence services; the interactions among the media, public opinion, and politics; problems of arms control; efforts to stop the export of sensitive technology; and the phenomenon of peacetime military exercises. But what if either limited or all-out war comes? The author describes the strategies and forces of the two sides and examines the key role of Iceland, emphasizing the strategic element of control of the waters. Potentially this is an area with four major actors: NATO, the USSR, the neutrals–Finland and Sweden–and the potentially dangerous but probably unreliable Warsaw Pact allies. It is a region of major importance that NATO must defend as its northern shield.
