Strategic Command and Control (Record no. 220559)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0815709811
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 355.3
Item number BLAS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bruce G Blair
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9 (RLIN) 10328
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Strategic Command and Control
Remainder of title Redefining the Nuclear Threat
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Washington
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Brookings Institution
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1985
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiv,341 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 22x15 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. During the past twenty-five years, U.S. strategists have argued that avoiding nuclear war depends on deterring a Soviet first strike by ensuring that U.S. forces could survive a surprise attack in numbers sufficient to inflict unacceptable damage in retaliation. U.S. military and political leaders have thus emphasized acquiring more powerful and accurate weaponry and providing better protection for it, while defense analysts have focused on assessing the relative strength and survivability of U.S. and Soviet forces. In the process neither has given sufficient attention to the vulnerability of the U.S. command, control, and communications system that would coordinate warning of an attack in progress and the response to it. In this study Bruce G. Blair examines accepted assumptions about mutual deterrence, force strength, and survivability, and concludes that the vulnerability of command, control, and communications not only precludes an effective retaliatory strike but also invites a preemptive Soviet first strike. After summarizing the assumptions and evaluative methodology behind mainstream strategic theory, the study describes the current decentralized command and control system that, under conditions of surprise attack, could be unable to communicate with decisionmakers or with units responsible for executing the decisions. Blair traces in detail the development of the system over three decades; the attempts to improve it through the use of procedural guidelines, alternative and redundant communications channels, and survival tactics; and the continuing vulnerabilities from improved Soviet weapons and the environmental forces engendered by massive nuclear detonations. Blair also analyzes the probable effects of proposals by the Reagan administration to strengthen command, control, and communications systems and provides recommendations for further strengthening and for altering related policies, deployments, and strategies to improve the stability of deterrence.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Command and control systems
9 (RLIN) 10329
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Military Policy
9 (RLIN) 10330
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element United States
9 (RLIN) 10331
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name BLAIR (Bruce G)
9 (RLIN) 10332
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Others St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/23/2013   355.3 BLAS GF03633 11/13/2021 11/13/2021 George Fernandes Collections