A History of NATO - The First Fifty Years Volume 3 Also by Gustav Schmidt AMERIKAS OPTION FOR DEUTSCHLAND UND JAPAN: Die Position und Rolle Deutschlands und Japans in regionalen und internationalen Strukturen (editor with Charles F. Doran) CANADA AT THE CROSSROADS? The Critical 1960s (editor with Jack L. Granatstein) CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND NATO'S SEARCH FOR A NEW ROLE: From the 1960s to the Present (editor) DER EUROPAISCHE IMPERIALISMUS DEUTSCHLAND-GROfl.BRITANNIEN-EUROPA: Politische Traditionen, Partnerschaft und Rivalitat (editor with Karl Rohe and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann) DEUTSCHER HISTORISMUS UND DER OBERGANG ZUR PARLAMENTARISCHEN DEMOKRATIE: Untersuchungen zu den politischen Gedanken von Meinecke-Troeltsch Max Weber ENGLAND IN DER KRISE: Grundziige und Grundlagen der britischen Appeasement-Politik, 1930-1937 EUROPE DIVIDED -DIVIDED GERMANY (editor) GROfl.BRITANNIEN UND EUROPA-GROfl.BRITANNIEN IN EUROPA: Sicherheitsbelange und Wirtschaftsfragen in der britischen Europapolitik nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (editor) KONSTELLATIONEN INTERNATIONALER POLITIK, 1924-1932: Politische und wirtschaftliche Faktoren in den Beziehungen zwischen Westeuropa und den Vereinigten Staaten (editor) KRISE IN GROfl.BRITANNIEN? Studien zu Strukturproblemen der britischen Gesellschaft und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert (editor with Karl Rohe) OST-WEST-BEZIEHUNGEN: Konfrontation und Detente 1945-89 (editor) POLITISCHE TRADITION UND WIRTSCHAFTLICHE FAKTOREN IN DER BRITISCHEN FRIEDENSSTRATEGIE 1917-1920: Grundziige einer europaischen Nachkriegsordnung in der Sicht englischer Machteliten THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF APPEASEMENT: British Foreign Policy in the 1930s STRUKTUREN DES KALTEN KRIEGS IM WANDEL (1914-1956) (forthcoming) ZWISCHEN BUNDNISSICHERUNG UND PRIVILEGIERTER PARTNERSCHAFT: Die deutsch-britischen Beziehungen und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 1955-1963 (editor) A History of NATO - The First Fifty Years Volume 3 Edited by Gustav Schmidt Professor in International Politics Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Germany pal grave * Editorial matter and selection © Gustav Schmidt 2001 Chapters 1-21 © Palgrave Publishers ltd 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2001 978-0-333-77488-5 All rights reserved. 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Schmidt, Gustav, 1938- UA646.3 .H56 2001 355'.031091821-dc21 2001032752 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 Transferred to Digital Printing 2012 CONTENTS Volume3 List of Tables ........................................................................................... ix List ofA bbreviations ............................................................................... xi PART X TECHNOLOGY, ARMS PRODUCTION, PROCUREMENT, AND EXPORTS 1 NATO's Defence Industrial Position: ............................................ 3 On the Verge ofA merican Hegemony? Trevor Taylor 2 NATO Procurement and the Revival ofE uropean Defense, ........ 13 1950-60 Jacqueline McGlade 3 The Fly in the Ointment? ............................................................. 29 Defence Production and Trade as an Element ofD ivisiveness in the Post-Cold War Alliance David G. Haglund 4 France and the Rationalisation oft he Defence Industry: ............ 47 National, European, or Transatlantic Strategy? Jolyon Howorth 5 The Reconciliation ofA rms Co-operation with Exports ............... 61 Joachim Rohde 6 Defence Industrial Globalisation - .............................................. 79 'The Hidden Hand of Government' Keith Hayward PART XI NATO AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS ISSUES 7 NATO and Nuclear Weapons- .................................................. 101 An Introduction to Some Historical and Current Issues Wolfgang Krieger 8 NATO Nuclear Strategy, 1949-90 .............................................. 121 Michael 0. Wheeler v vi Contents 9 Intra-Alliance Conflict Related to Nuclear Weapons Politics: .. 141 The French Case (1957-63) Maurice Va l'sse 10 Limiting American Nuclear Omnipotence in NATO: ................. 155 The Canadian Method, 1951-68 Sean M. Maloney PART XII MILITARY STRATEGY, FORCES PLANNING, AND COMMAND AND PERFORMANCE CONTROL 11 Waitingfor NATO: Strategic Concepts and Force Structure .... 175 Samuel F. Wells, Jr. and Alex Danchev 12 The McNamara Era ................................................................... 183 EdwardDrea 13 Post-Cold War NATO Force Structure Planning ...................... 197 and the Vexatious Issue of Multinational Land Forces Thomas-Durell Young 14 The Road to NATO's New Strategic Concept ............................. 219 Klaus Wittmann PART XIII NATO, THE NORTHERN FLANK, AND THE NEUTRALS 15 NATO, the Northern Flank, and the Neutrals ............................ 241 Olav Riste 16 The Strategic Importance oft he High North during the ............ 257 Cold War RolfTamnes 17 The Dilemmas ofA lliance: Denmark's Fifty Years .................... 275 with NATO Nikolaj Petersen 18 Sweden-Nato's Neutral 'Ally'? A Post-Revisionist Account ..... 295 Mikael af Malmborg PART XIV NATO AND THE SOUTHERN FLANK 19 Linchpin ofthe Southern Flank? ................................................ 317 A General Survey ofI taly in NATO, 1949-99 Leopoldo Nuti and Maurizio Cremasco Contents vii 20 The Evolving Strategic Significance of Turkey's ....................... 339 Relationship with NATO Bruce Kuniholm 21 Greece and NATO: A Nettlesome Relationship ......................... 359 S. Victor Papacosma Notes .................................................................................................... 375 Select Bibliography .............................................................................. 451 Index .................................................................................................... 479 List of Tables Volume3 I US-European Arms Trade Balance: Illustrative Data ................. 5 2.1 NATO and Western European Multinational .......................... 213 Corps/Division Headquarters 2.2 Definition ofNATO Command Authorities ............................ 214 2.3 Comparison ofNATO and US Command ............................... 215 Authority Definitions 2.4 Command Authorities ofNATO and European ...................... 216 Hi-/Multi-national Formations 2.5 Lead Nation/Framework Formations ...................................... 217 2.6 Bi-national Formations ............................................................ 217 2. 7 Multinational Formations ........................................................ 217 3 Italian Armed Forces Employed in External ........................... 337 Missions as of April 7, 1999 ix List of Abbreviations AA Auswartiges Amt AA (in footnotes only) Akten zur Auswiirtigen Politik der Bun desrepublik Deutschland ABM Anti-Ballistic Missiles AFNORTH Allied Forces Northern Europe AFSOUTH Allied Forces Southern Europe ALCM Air-Launched Cruise Missiles AMP Additional Military Programme (US) AN Archives Nationales (France) ATA Atlantic Treaty Organisation BA Bundesarchiv (FRG) BA-MA Bundesarchiv-MiliUirarchiv BDI Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie BMVg FRG's Ministry of Defence ccs Combined Chiefs of Staff (UK-US) CEEC Committee for European Economic Co-operation CENTO Central Treaty Organisation CES Conference on European Security CFE Conventional Forces in Europe CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy CIA Central Intelligence Service (US) CIS Commonwealth of Independent States COCOM Coordinating Committee of the Paris Consultative Group of nations working to control export of strategic goods to Communist countries COMINFO Communist Information Bureau RM cos Chiefs of Staff (UK) CSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe DDEL Dwight D. Eisenhower Library (Abilene, Kansas) DPC Defence Planning Committee DSB Department ofS tate Bulletin EA Europa Archiv EC European Community ECA European Co-operation Administration (US) ECSC European Coal and Steel Community EDC European Defence Community EDP Emergency Defence Plan of SACEUR xi