1992: Keep peace by pooling armies

ABSTRACT

Peace researcher Randall Forsberg shares her plan to take advantage of the end of the Cold War to rethink armed forces, military spending, and arms exports. She proposes that countries reduce nuclear and conventional forces, adopting limited militaries that could participate in multilateral peacekeeping operations should the need arise but could not engage in offensive war.

KEYWORDS:

• Cold War
• nuclear deterrence
• multilateral peacekeeping
• non-offensive defense
• employment
• arms exports
• United Nations
• nuclear disarmament

This article is the republished version of:

What is to be Done?

Notes

1. See https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00963402.1992.11460087

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Randall Forsberg

Randall Forsberg was director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An admired researcher and activist, she died in 2007.