1 - 5 of 5
Number of results to display per page
Search Results
2. Korea versus Korea: Conventional Military Balance and the Path to Disarmament
- Author:
- Charles Knight and Lutz Unterseher
- Publication Date:
- 04-2020
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Project on Defense Alternatives
- Abstract:
- Varied incremental steps that embody and signal the accumulating commitment to a minimally acceptable common political future for Korea are key to this process. Progressive reduction of cross-border invasion threats through mutual confidence building force restructuring will constitute a virtuous circle of reinforcement for a changed relationship. [Through the] accumulation of the sunk costs of iterative reciprocity North and South Korea will arrive at a point where the demonstrated commitment to smaller restructured military postures is sufficient to allow rapid progress toward a stable level and disposition of arms compatible with a new peaceful political relationship.
- Topic:
- Conflict Prevention, Defense Policy, Military Strategy, and Disarmament
- Political Geography:
- Asia, South Korea, and North Korea
3. North Korea’s Conventional Military Forces: Relative Strength and Options
- Author:
- Lutz Unterseher
- Publication Date:
- 04-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Project on Defense Alternatives
- Abstract:
- If we can assume that the drive to generate unconventional [nuclear] instruments of deterrence is a response to the lack of options in the conventional realm, it would make sense to come up with policy recommendations aiming to lessen northern concerns.” This paper by German military analyst Lutz Unterseher first assesses the relative conventional military power and potential of North and South Korea, then suggests a number of military restructuring steps the U.S. and South Korea can take to reassure North Korea of its security in the context of denuclearization. Unterseher calls for “…a genuine structural change, shifting the capabilities of the [allied] forces in the direction of a stable, non-provocative defense.
- Topic:
- Defense Policy, Armed Forces, Military Affairs, and Weapons
- Political Geography:
- Asia and North Korea
4. Sustainable Defense: More Security, Less Spending
- Author:
- Carl Conetta
- Publication Date:
- 06-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Project on Defense Alternatives
- Abstract:
- The United States must partner with other nations in addressing challenges like climate change, epidemics of disease, nuclear proliferation, and human rights and humanitarian crises. None of these challenges are best dealt with by military force. Rather, they will depend on building non-military capacities for diplomacy, economic assistance, and scientific and cultural cooperation and exchange which have been allowed to languish in an era in which the military has been treated as the primary tool of U.S. security policy.
- Topic:
- Security, Defense Policy, Climate Change, Economy, Sustainability, and Hybrid Threats
- Political Geography:
- North America, Global Focus, and United States of America
5. Fundamental Design Principles of Confidence-Building Defense
- Author:
- Carl Conetta and Lutz Unterseher
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Project on Defense Alternatives
- Abstract:
- A selection of slides prepared for seminars held in Holland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Belarus in 1994. The seminars were organized and co-sponsored by the Study Group on Alternative Security Policy (SAS) and the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA). Twenty-five years later the principles of Confidence-Building Defense remain relevant to the efforts of North and South Korea to construct a “peace regime” after many decades of enmity and military standoff.
- Topic:
- Conflict Prevention, Defense Policy, National Security, and Military Strategy
- Political Geography:
- South Korea, North Korea, Hungary, Czech Republic, Holland, and Belarus