Engines of War: Merchants of Death and the New Arms Race by James AdamsReview by: Gregory F. TrevertonForeign Affairs, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Fall, 1990), p. 178Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20044511 .

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178 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

ENGINES OF WAR: MERCHANTS OF DEATH AND THE NEW ARMS RACE. By James Adams. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990, 307 pp. $19.95.

For every solution there is a problem, de Gaulle is supposed to have said. As the superpowers reduce their arsenals, their arms makers have even more incentive to find new export markets in the Third World. More

important, as lethal new technologies seep around the world, they are "more readily available to any dictator, terrorist or drug-trafficking orga nization." The theme is not new, but Adams, the defense correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, provides thorough investigative journal ism and vivid stories.

STRATEGIC POWER USA/USSR. Edited by Carl G. Jacobsen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990, 519 pp. $45.00 (paper, $19.95).

The usefulness of this reference has not been vitiated by events of the last year. Written by a who's who of analysts?American, Soviet and

other?its chapters address differences in the strategic cultures of the two

countries, from theory to process. Jacobsen, a Canadian, brings to the

editing his country's own combination of detachment from, and under

standing of, the United States.

COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMON DEFENSE. By C. Kenneth Allard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990, 317 pp.

If America's military services are all supposed to be on the same side,

why are they so different? This soldier/scholar's answer, nicely done, is their institutional histories and personalities. The young American repub lic determined that its commerce required a permanent navy, but would raise an army only if and as circumstances required. The doctrines of the two services were sharply different: combined arms for the army meant

discretion at low levels but centralization at the top; the navy by contrast

centered authority in ship captains, with more decentralization at the top. What is needed is a "strategic paradigm" that would unify these separate

perspectives born of distinct operational requirements.

ALLIES IN CRISIS: MEETING GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO WEST ERN SECURITY. By Elizabeth D. Sherwood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990, 245 pp. $25.00.

Indochina, Suez, Indochina again, Afghanistan: the list is usually taken as NATO's woeful failure to agree on issues outside Europe. Not so, argues this fine history. The allies have managed to assure that their disagree

ments beyond Europe have not damaged the core of their alliance in

Europe, and they have often found ways to cooperate informally, outside

NATO, in a "shadow alliance."

ASSESSING PEACE IN A CHANGING WORLD: CRITICAL CHOICES FOR THE WEST'S STRATEGIC AND ARMS CONTROL POLICIES. By Lynn Etheridge Davis. Washington: Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Insti

tute, 1990, 87 pp. REGAINING THE HIGH GROUND: NATO'S STAKE IN THE NEW TALKS ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE. By Barry M. Blechman, William J. Durch and Kevin P. O'Leary. New York: St.

Martin's Press, 1990, 217 pp. $39.95 (paper, $14.95). CONVENTIONAL FORCE REDUCTIONS: A DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT.

By Joshua M. Epstein. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1990, 275 pp.

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