projecting U.S. views onto the Soviets, they have underesti-mated the difficulties of achieving gentline strategic stability and over-estimated what has been and can be achieved through Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).
Worst of all, Ermarth concludes, Americans' excessive confidence in strategic stability has encouraged Moscow to pursue a more assertive foreign policy. The United States should now deemphasize "stability" and develop a more dynamic strategic doctrine of its own.
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