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Article: On the conception of "jointness" of armed forces.
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- Military Thought
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Military development in the West, and the United States in the first place, was greatly affected by the end of the Cold War that also radically changed international relations and created a new context for the security system.
First, during the Cold War the armed forces of western countries were mainly oriented against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organization as a whole. They were tied together by their obligations within NATO and were trained to wage wide-scale hostilities with the use of nuclear and conventional weapons on the European theater. In the last decade, the United States and later NATO shifted the emphasis from large-scale to regional and ...