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457 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 7 (1981)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0457 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE The international security environment of the late twentieth century poses numerous dangers and problems for the United States. In designing a strategy in support of its national interests, the United States faces the need to mold into a coherent framework numerous instruments of statecraft, of which military power remains an indispensable element. Each of the con- tributors to this issue of The Annals addresses one or more dimensions of American defense policy. The development of an effective national security policy within government, and an evaluation of such policy outside govern- ment, depends necessarily upon an understanding of numerous aspects of defense, strategy, and weapons systems. These include contrasting Soviet and American approaches to deterrence and nuclear weapons; the mea- surement of strategic force levels and the comparison of defense budgets; the relationship between offensive and defensive strategic capabilities, and between nuclear and general purpose forces; strategic force vulnerability issues; the hypothesized role of military power in diplomacy of crisis man- agement; the formidable task of strengthening, or maintaining, extended security guarantees by the United States to its allies, as well as equitable sharing of defense burdens; the concepts of a rapid deployment force and power projection capabilities; the Soviet-American maritime balance, including American naval force modernization needs; the defense mobiliza- tion base of the United States, both in personnel and technological- industrial infrastructure; and the future of arms control in American national security policy. The purpose of this special issue is not to provide specific policy guidance, but rather to examine in broad context the national security issues that will shape the ongoing debate in the United States about the necessary levels, scope, prospective emphases, and priorities in programs in support of the common defense of the United States and other nations in the years ahead. ROBERT L. PFALTZGRAFF, Jr. 7

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