Word: nato
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...From the Pentagon to Fleet Commander Charles Randall Brown went the word: Mission accomplished; withdraw to the Central Mediterranean. Within hours "Cat" Brown and some 30 of his warships-including the giant carrier Forrestal-had pivoted hard west and were headed for Italian waters, where they will join in NATO exercises this week...
...Europe and the U.S. so that each great power could keep aerial watch against surprise attack from the other, Pravda denounced the idea as "spying," and Premier Bulganin tried to laugh it down as daft. Since then, the ratio of missile threat has turned against Moscow. The U.S., with NATO and other partners bordering close, can sight in with shorter-range missiles on the Soviet Union while the U.S. still lies beyond the reach of any but intercontinental missiles. Last week, in their first major move of the 1957 London U.N. Subcommittee on Disarmament talks, the Russians put forward...
...industrially important areas of the U.S. was promptly pronounced "outrageous" in the Pentagon. There were other items in the Soviet package that proposed even more one-sided disarmament of the West: a reduction in forces that would leave the U.S. with too few men to keep up its NATO commitments, and a scheme for setting up ground control posts that would bring every part of Europe and the U.S. under surveillance-except the Russian heartland...
What were the Russians up to? In a series of blustering notes, they had just warned one NATO partner after another that they would make cemeteries of their countries in case of war. Their propaganda around the world was just as relentlessly condemnatory of the U.S. as ever, just as persistent in talking large and loosely about abolishing nuclear weapons. Only inside the Bath stone solemnity of London's Lancaster House were they talking with some precision on the subject. One possibility, though not probability, is that the Russians mean business. But there are other possibilities. They...
America, then, must continue to balance political necessity with military strategy. Britain, unable financially to sustain superfluous troops in Western Europe, cannot afford this luxury. But, in the course of the current meeting of the NATO Council, Continental nations should be made to realize that nothing more than token service can now be paid to the outdated concept of deterrence through the use of conventional military forces...