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James Fallows, National Defense.William W. Kaufmann, Defense in the 1980s.

The main question currently facing the Western European Union (WEU) is how Europe is going to organise its security and defence. The main objective of the security policy of present-day civilised states or alliances is to prevent a situation in which their armed forces have to resort to the defence of their territory. In crisis situation, every effort is made to find solutions other than by military intervention. It should also be noted that in the post-Cold War world, the traditional task of territorial defence has diminished in importance with the emphasis shifting to crisis management, peacekeeping, peacemaking and crisis intervention. (Military Technology/SWP)

Die veränderte globale und regionale Sicherheitslage zwingt Bulgarien zu einer Überpüfung und Revision seiner Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitspolitik. Die nachlassenden Spannungen auf dem Balkan haben ihren Niederschlag in den neuen Verteidigungs- und Militärdoktrinen gefunden. Eine klare Formulierung der angestrebten sicherheitspolitischen Ziele wurde jedoch bislang durch die gespannten zivil-militärischen Beziehungen in Bulgarien verhindert. (BIOst-Mrk)

When barbados became the fourth English-speaking Caribbean country to achieve its constitutional independence, in November 1966, one of its prime responsibilities was to assume defense of the new state. How Barbados approached this problem of defense planning and policy-making in its first 22 years of nationhood (1966-1988) will be the focus of this study. No previous study devoted exclusively to this subject has been published in all this time, a most surprising omission.Barbados defense policy may be divided into three phases which correspond, roughly, with the periods during which its two major parties — the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) and the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) — have alternated in power.

How the new state approached defense planning.

Books reviewed in this articles:Ian F. W. Beckett and John Gooch (eds.), Politicians and Defense; Studies in the Formulation of British Defense PolicyGavin Kennedy, Defense Economies