These cold strategic calculations are the basis for a growing military relationship.

But Borstelmann also shows how strategic calculation shaped the era's most important political decisions.

Their rivalry flared into the open after a strategic calculation by the Miller camp.

"It has been packaged as a completely commercial development, but the strategic calculations are just as important to them."

Yet it is clearly influencing the strategic calculations of both sides as they position themselves for the competitive months ahead.

Beyond these political pressures lie cold strategic calculations.

But in the end, the atmospherics of the talks may prove less critical than the strategic calculations behind them.

Table 5.1 shows in simplified form the type of strategic calculations needed.

Nonetheless each leader must make strategic calculations in an environment where little can be taken for granted.

In its place comes a new - and equally dubious - strategic calculation.