That policy ought to be reconsidered in the absence of the overwhelming conventional military threat posed by the old Soviet bloc.
In his own words, "At present, and in the foreseeable future, a conventional threat to the German territory is not recognizable."
We have a very effective and modern Navy which can cope with both conventional and unconventional threats.
Dozens of patents have been issued recently for inventions offering protection against more conventional threats.
These would be problems whose outcomes would result in conventional threats to national security as first or higher order outcomes.
The Israelis call Syria their greatest conventional military threat.
How to counter the new conventional threat?
Not a conventional fear about a conventional threat.
Saddam is a conventional threat who can be eliminated by conventional means.
Success would mean that no serious conventional military threat against Western Europe existed.