May 28, 1991 (April 15), Xinwei, NATO adjust its military strategy. dramatic change in

1990 in Eastern Europe, the collapse of the Yalta system, the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact. In this context, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began to adjust its military strategy. (? V history today?? Com)
in July 1990, NATO released the "London Declaration" declared NATO military a political organization into a political - military organization, decided to take a series of enemy Friends of the initiative, extended an olive branch to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. May 28, 1991, the Minister of Defence of the NATO member states meeting in Brussels to develop the contours of NATO's new military strategy.
new strategy "defense against the Soviet Union" to "all-round defense, from the original the diversification may appear anywhere in the Mediterranean from the Atlantic to the threat. Strategic focus from preparing for the war in Europe in World War II turned to focus cope with local conflicts, the army building to maintain a high level of confrontation with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact to the substantial reduction; deployment of troops becomes forward defense for a mobile defense, decided to form "The NATO Response Force ; nuclear strategy, give up the early use of nuclear weapons "tripwires strategic nuclear weapons as a" last resort "deterrence. Werner, the military strategic adjustment marks since its inception in 1949, the most fundamental change in NATO, NATO Secretary General.