A new strategic revolution?

Professor Freedman examines the argument that, with the claimed potential of ballistic missile defence deriving from SDI, there has been a strategic revolution in favour of the defence. He argues that such a revolution will only come despite technological trends and not because of them, ie from building an entirely new strategic relationship with the active cooperation of the USSR, and concludes that the strident advocacy of strategic defensive systems allows the opportunity of avoiding the real dilemmas that confront us in the nuclear age by pretending that there is a technological way out.