Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO.pdf - Program on Strategic ...

of the aspirations for the DDPR is that in defining the
mix the Review will establish the relationships between
the various components <strong>and</strong> knit them together
in a coherent package that reflects <strong>NATO</strong>’s political
aims <strong>and</strong> the economic resources available with which
to work.
CONVENTIONAL FORCES
It can be expected that the input on conventional
forces will reflect the ongoing work of the traditional
defense planning cycle <strong>and</strong> the challenges which defense
planners are currently facing—the balance between
expeditionary forces <strong>and</strong> those for territorial
defense, the commitment to Article 5, <strong>and</strong> most significantly
the severe decline in defense budgets which
has led to yet another search for the most effective
ways to spend defense dollars. This search, now marketed
under the rubric “smart defense,” will inevitably
involve familiar recipes based on the self-evident
proposition that effectiveness <strong>and</strong> efficiency lie in doing
things together. It remains to be seen whether the
new language <strong>and</strong> the severity of the economic situation
will at last persuade countries to give precedence
to collective solutions over those dictated by national
considerations.
Missile Defense.
Missile defense is proceeding on two tracks. The
first is the implementation of the <strong>NATO</strong> system <strong>and</strong>
its integration with the U.S. Phased Adaptive Approach
(PAA). There are expectations that an initial
operating capability (IOC) of the <strong>NATO</strong> project will
be announced at the Chicago Summit in May 2012.
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