This case study briefly recounts the Air Force's successful campaign to derail the perceived threat to its organizational raison d'etre posed by (Army owned and operated) Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missiles (ATBMs) and the Tactical Ballistic Missiles (TBMs) that ATBMs are designed to counter. From the Fall of 1986 until the Summer of 1989, the author was a witness/protagonist in a power struggle among the Air Force, Army, USEUCOM, JCS, OSD, NATO, and key U.S. allies over the implications of ATBMs end TBMs in the European theater. The meteoric rise/demise of the NATO ATBN project is a classic example of bureaucratic politics at work in the domestic/international "military-industrial complex," and it provides useful insights into players, positions, and processes in European defense politics. ; NWC Essay 90-52