Defending Peace and Freedom

by Brent Scowcroft, R. James Woolsey, Thomas H. Etzold

The Soviet-American relationship encompasses a broad range of issues, but the strategic stability of that relationship is first and foremost a question of central military balance-comprehensive, and not just in nuclear forces. Yet, even as a primarily military issue, strategic stability has important political, economic, and psychological dimensions. This work examines many of these complex issues. Co-published with the Atlantic Council of the United States.

226 pages, Hardcover

First published January 19, 1988

About the author

Brent Scowcroft was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon, as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.