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...that Templer made possible by war. Templer's new job is the top field command that Britain has to give. Under NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Alfred M. Gruenther, he will command British, Canadian, Dutch, Belgian and Danish troops guarding the vital plainlands between the Baltic and the Rhine. The backbone of his command: some 80,000 men of Britain's Army of the Rhine, which includes the heaviest concentration of armor (three full divisions) in Western Europe...
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...amiable skepticism attributed to Reader Rhine referred, of course, not to his work in general but to the case of a hypothetically psychic cat; 2) a better phrase would have been that he cannot yet prove his theories by standards acceptable to the conventional...
...those new forms," Adenauer means the European Defense Community. The idea came, providentially, from France. Germans could not propose it without risking the impression that it was simply a cunning maneuver to unlock the occupation shackles and revive the Wehrmacht. But when the enemy from across the Rhine proposed it in 1950, Konrad Adenauer could more easily champion...
...Western Europe, as long and effectively as possible. Ideally, SHAPE thinks of defense as far east as possible. But until recently, at least, the plain fact has been that in event of attack, NATO's first line of defense would have to be the west bank of the Rhine. However, recent developments in superweapons have made the idea of "forward strategy" seem more feasible (assuming that some day German troops are added to NATO's strength). and have even encouraged the SHAPE generals to think of ways of waging "offensive defense" if war with Russia comes...