Not really. Detente - people look out for their own people.
Star Trek did an episode on this - "Balance of Terror". Kind of put the reality back into the risk of war.
An armed society, is a polite society.
WHY DO WE STRAY, FROM SIMPLE TRUTHS.
That was what I was expressing there. Without the DS, nations risk themselves in war especially a biowar where even a change in wind direction can screw up deployment.