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NATO Defense Capabilities Initiative
For roughly ten years, NATO has engaged in a perennial debate
over burden sharing and the need for European members to acquire
high tech military equipment. The new formulations affecting
the most recent debate are the revolution in military affairs
and information warfare. US Defense Secretary Cohen described
the phenomenon in November 1998 as he launched his Defense
Capabilities Initiative (DCI). NATO is expected to produce
a document addressing DCI, outlining how NATO's force structure
will be readjusted. NATO is also expected to address how the
technological gap between the US and its Allies can be narrowed.
This page includes updates concerning DCI and a link to the
chapter on this subject in BASIC's Risk Reduction Strategy
for NATO.
Updates
Document
on NATO Defense Capabilities Initiative: chapter from
A Risk Reduction Strategy for NATO: Preparing for the
Next 50 Years, BASIC Research Report 99.1, January 1999
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