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7 Armed Forces & Soc'y 3 (1980-1981)

handle is hein.journals/amdfcsad7 and id is 1 raw text is: Editor's Note Armed Forces and Society is dedicated to the publication of social- science-based analyses of military institutions and military affairs. This objective obviously includes conceptual and empirical analysis of mil- itary strategy and military tactics. There is a vast production of writings on military strategy and military tactics, but the bulk of these writings deal mainly with the technological dimension. However, the idea of territorial defense is deeply rooted in political conceptions, which can be analyzed in social scientific terms. The key element in territorial defense is the use of reserve personnel; it is a modern conception of an armed population. Territorial defense is a deliberate political effort to slow, modify, and even reverse the decline of the mass armed force which is taking place in selected advanced industrial nations whose defense involves nuclear weapons. Territorial defense is thought of as deterrence in depth. Inter- est in the conception has grown during the last decade. We are pleased to publish a group of articles that include the social scientific approach to territorial defense. Christopher Jones presents a striking theme in his article The Warsaw Pact: Military Exercises and Military Intervention. He argues that the Warsaw Pact military exer- cises are deliberate efforts by the Russians to prevent the growth of territorial defense potentials among its Eastern European satellites. David Burke offers a detailed and realistic analysis of the growth of territorial defense in Romania in his study, Defense and Mass Mobili- zation in Romania. His analysis raises the question of the internal political control which territorial defense offers the Romanian leader- ship. From the NATO point of view, Steven Canby investigates the poten- tial for territorial defense of Western Europe and concludes with an optimistic assessment-provided, of course, his recommendations are employed. The importance of his paper for the interdisciplinary readers of Armed Forces and Society is not so much in the specific recommen- dations that he offers, important though they are, as in the exercise in organizational analysis of the particular type of organization that con- stitutes territorial defense. Related to territorial defense, another central and crucial topic in the social science analysis of military strategy is the differing national styles 3

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