COLONEL DAVID E. SHAVER is a Strategic Research Analyst with the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. His previous assignments have included command of combat engineer battalions in the 1st and 8th Infantry Divisions; Chief, Military Engineering and Topography Division, U.S. Army Europe; and S-3, 937th Engineer Group. In Vietnam he served as a unit commander and staff officer in the 62nd Engineer Battalion (Land Clearing). He received a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and an M.S. from Florida Institute of Technology. Colonel Shaver is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He is coauthor of Conventional Arms Control in Europe: Army Perspectives; How to Think About Conventional Arms Control: A Framework; Burdensharing and Mission Specialization in NA TO; On Disarmament: The Role of Conventional Arms Control in National Security Strategy, and, author of Force Structures: The United States and Europe in the Coming Decade and FlexLease:An Acquisition Strategyforthe 1990s. He currently holds the General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research at the U.S. Army War College and recently served on the DOD Total Force Policy Study Group Staff, Washington, D.C. Back to Table of Contents Justifying the Army Back to SSI List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1990 by US Army War College. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com