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by Carl Conetta and Lutz Unterseher.\u00a0May 1994.
\nNewly published in \u27aa PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Originally, this primer was written and then published in spiral-bound book format for a series of seminars sponsored by the Study Group on Alternative Security Policy (SAS) and the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA).\u00a0 These seminars were held in 1994 in several of the newly sovereign states of Europe: the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Belarus.<\/p>\n

In 1994 no suitable seminar host was found in Ukraine.\u00a0 Although confidence-building defenses can not solve all of Ukraine’s strategic dilemmas during the present war with Russia, initial evidence strongly suggests that its military has made successful use of some of the principal aspects of a confidence-building defense.<\/p>\n

The primer remains one of the most comprehensive presentations of the concepts of Confidence-Building Defense (C-BD), including details of their application to the structuring and operations of national armed forces.\u00a0 It totals 116 pages with 94 charts and tables.<\/p>\n

Although some details of arms and tactics change over time, the fundamentals remain relevant to present-day international security, military planning, and the furthering of peaceful relations.<\/p>\n

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