National security

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:7295153

This paper reports that in October 1991, GAO organized a conference on potential military threats to U.S. security interests and necessary modifications to U.S. forces to meet those threats. Conference participants, including defense analysts and retired military officers, discussed the possibility of U.S. and allied involvement in various regional contingencies around the globe. The first volume summarizes the views of conference participants, who, while acknowledging the diminished threat of the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact, cautioned that the nuclear weapons held by the former Soviet republics and other nations remain a threat. No consensus was reached on how to downsize U.S. forces. Some proposed sizing on the basis of specific threats, while other argued for flexibility to meet any contingency. Participants also suggested several ways to respond to the changing security environment, including assisting the former Soviet republics with denuclearization, reducing forward-deployed U.S. forces in Europe and the Pacific, increasing U.S. efforts at missile nonproliferation in the Near East, and reforming the organization and control of low-intensity conflict operations. The second volume is a supplement containing papers GAO commissioned from conference participants. These papers were the basis for discussions at the conference.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (United States). National Security and International Affairs Div.
• OSTI ID: 7295153
• Report Number(s): GAO/NSIAD-92-104S
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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