Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a U.S. policy planner was still nagged by worries that Great Britain's revolutionary defense cutback (TIME, April 15) would lead to a general weakening of NATO, and a newsman put the question to Ike. "Everybody agrees," he replied, "that Britain must have a sound economic base on which to build its forces, or in the long run it is not an effective partner . . . Now, while we are disappointed to see in this coming year 13,500 [British] men taken out of Europe, still it does not, in our opinion, obviate the necessity for a shield ... in Western...
...sword-shield-and-visor legion of Caesar's hour; neither is it the sprawling sea of men and machines that fought the brutal battles of World War II. It is a unique organism, the Southern European Task Force-SETAF-whose job it is to support NATO's ground armies in that area. A tightly packed, well-trained band of about 6,000 men, SETAF comprises the U.S. Army's only operative atomic Missile Command in Europe...
...Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With the 200,000-man NATO-commanded Italian army moving in to drive an oncoming enemy into a pocket, SETAF efficiently unlimbers its cranes, trucks and crews, loads its rockets and missiles, releases its wallop with discriminating accuracy...
...Russians exploded a nuclear weapon of their own. It was the fifth (and one of biggest) Russian nuclear explosion in two weeks-explosions which, by curious coincidence, came hard on the heels of Soviet threats of hydrogen retaliation against European nations which agreed to the establishment of atomic NATO installations within their borders (TIME. April...
Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss has never been quite frank about his plans for West Germany's defense contribution to NATO. His predecessor, Theodor Blank, promised to field twelve German divisions and 500,000 men by 1960, and commit all of them to NATO. But when Strauss took office last year, he began revising Blank's program and scaling down manpower targets. Last week, in an interview with the military analyst of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...