Preface -- The Future of NATO -- The Future of NATO -- Europe and the Alliance in the Next Decade -- Political Problems in the Future of NATO -- Strategic and Military Problems of the Alliance -- The Soviet Strategic Challenge in the 1980s -- Theatre Nuclear Forces in Europe: Is NATO Running Out of Options? -- The Nuclear Alternatives -- European Nuclear Options -- Alternative Conventional Force Postures -- Geopolitical Realities and Alliance Military Contingencies: The Northern Flank -- The Southern Flank: New Dimensions for the Alliance -- For Want of a Nail: The Logistics of the Alliance -- East-West Strategy and the Middle East-Persian Gulf -- Sea Power and NATO Strategy -- Political and Economic Problems of the Alliance -- American Foreign Policy: The Changing Political Universe -- The Strategic Role of the Western Business Community: An Entrepreneurial View -- Labor and the Alliance -- Energy and the Future of NATO -- A New North Atlantic Treaty of Technological Cooperation and Trade -- Allied Cooperation in Armaments Development, Production, and Support: A European View -- Transtlantic Arms Collaboration: An Industry Perspective -- Organizational and Leadership Problems of the Alliance -- Social Change and the Defense of the West -- Does NATO Exist? -- Intra-Alliance Diversities and Challenges: NATO in an Age of Hot Peace -- Public Support for NATO in Europe -- Structural and Organizational Problems of NATO: Some Solutions -- NATO in the 1980s: The Need for Pragmatic Leadership