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"Monstrous Nonsense." Charged with the halfhearted mission of winning British support for the $5 billion MLF was Admiral Claude Ricketts, U.S. deputy chief of naval operations, who has doubled of late as the Pentagon's Multi-mixmaster. Strategically, he argued, a force of 25 Polaris vessels cruising Europe'...
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has his own ideas about the U.S. proposal for a NATO fleet of Polaris-firing surface ships manned by crews of several nationalities. "Utter and complete poppycock!" he cried in the House of Lords last week. "How," he snorted, "can a ship fight effectively...
Naughty Questions. The British approve of its primary aim, to satisfy West Germany's demand for a bigger role in NATO's nuclear defense, but argue that they cannot afford to build their own independent Polaris submarine fleet and contribute as well to MLF, whose 20 to 25...
At Ottawa everyone knew what was in the egg, but no one knew what to call it. Well in advance of last week's semiannual NATO Council meeting, the U.S. and its allies had agreed on a new addition to NATO's alphabetical armory: IANF, meaning interallied nuclear...
By any name, the new force is intended to give the NATO Allies a greater sense of participation in nuclear strategy, but will do little to increase their actual role in the defense of Europe. A more significant development, in the U.S. view, would be formation of a multilateral force...