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weapons (NSNWs)? A look at the key issues that have
helped shape these objectives may provide some insights.
Military Issues.
Modernization. Several components of this issue
have helped define the course of the conventional
arms control experience.
• New Systems. To the extent an arms control
agreement enumerates the specific types <strong>and</strong>
models of weapon systems it addresses, its viability
depends heavily on the means it provides
to incorporate changes over time. This has
proven a major detriment to the operation of
the CFE Treaty, which limits five major categories
of equipment (battle tanks, armored combat
vehicles, artillery pieces, attack helicopters,
<strong>and</strong> combat aircraft), <strong>and</strong> lists what specific
types <strong>and</strong> models are included in each category
in a “Protocol on Existing Types.” This Protocol
was meant to be updated regularly <strong>and</strong> routinely
as the parties declared the introduction
of new types into their inventories—but quickly
bogged down in disputes over types an inspecting
party observed in the field <strong>and</strong> judged
should be listed, while the owning party had
elected not to declare it based on its own judgment
of Treaty definitions. The Treaty provides
no means to resolve such disputes other than by
consultation; consequently, despite mammoth
investments of time <strong>and</strong> effort by the interlocutors,
the Protocol has been updated only once,
provisionally, over the entire life of the Treaty.
The VDoc contains no such enumeration, but is
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