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...divisions in East Germany. To preserve equilibrium, any drastic diminution of American strength would have to be balanced by a corresponding increase in European strength. But prosperous Europe shows few signs of wanting to shoulder the burden; West Germany, for example, considers any further expansion of the Bundeswehr out of the question. Still, the Seventh Army is a political tool as well as a military one, and few observers outside of the Army are convinced that it has to stay at its present strength of 210,000 men in order to be effective. Under pressures from the Viet...
Krupp has kept that pledge; the closest his complex now comes to providing the instruments of war is in its production of trucks and transport planes for the West German Bundeswehr. Patiently rebuilding from defeat, Krupp diversified to the extent that Krupp-owned concerns now turn out not only locomotives, aircraft, huge bucket dredgers and machine tools but even mineral water and orchids. Last year Krupp sales amounted to well over $1 billion, thus proving the point made by one of Alfried's corporate aides, who says pridefully: "Peace pays...
...Kirst explained in his Gunner Asch trilogy, was to play the old army game. Now he explains how to survive in the new German army. Same way, but with a difference. Readers of the trilogy were amused to discover that Hitler's Wehrmacht had a silly side. The Bundeswehr, on the other hand, seems distant and dull...
High Cost of Defense. Not that Germany has failed to do its share for Western defense. Though the spirit of militarism is at such low ebb that the Bundeswehr is hard put to find recruits, West Germany maintains twelve divisions...
...years ago, West Germany's Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss ordered a consignment of Israeli-made submachine guns for the Bundeswehr, and the Israeli government was so grateful for the arms order that it invited Strauss down for a visit. The invitation gathered dust until Strauss, who is now out of the government, decided recently that the trip to Israel might not hurt his chances of making a political comeback at home. Delighted to have you, said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...