CENTRAL EUROPEAN
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS
AND NATO EXPANSION
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
McNair Paper 39
April 1995
A popular Government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a
Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern
ignorance; And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with
the power which knowledge gives.
JAMES MADISON to W. T. BARRY
August 4, 1822
Contents
Copyright Information
NATO Expansion
Past as Prologue
Germany:
One People, One State, One Army
Republic of Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia:
From Unity to Federation and Divorce
The Czech Republic
Slovakia
Prologue as Future:
What Central Europe Needs To Do
"Countries with oppressive political systems, countries with designs on their neighbors,
countries with militaries unchecked by civilian control, or with closed economic
systems...need not apply."
President Bill Clinton
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