Word: baudissin
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...effects, its opponents say, NATO generals might be too quick to use it if the Soviets attacked, thereby causing Moscow to retaliate with its own nuclear weapons. Thus it might become the catalyst for escalating a conventional war into a nuclear confrontation. Says retired General Wolf von Baudissin, who served as chief of NATO's planning staff: "There are already too many new technologies that threaten stability over the next decade. The only solution is to control armaments programs before production starts...
...slight," said General Ulrich de Maiziere, the Bundeswehr's chief of staff. After studying the archives, the program's director said: "He couldn't work with large bodies, and he panicked when faced with great tasks." Rommel's appeal to Hitler, suggested General Wolf von Baudissin, was that, like the Fiihrer himself, "he was no snob and no intellectual...
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