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The West German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, have emerged after three decades as the linchpin of Western defence in Europe. Their importance to Western security is likely to increase over the remainder of the century as the alliance, for a variety of political and military reasons, moves to a greater emphasis on conventional deterrence and defence.
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See, among recent writings, the remarkably convergent views of John McCloy and George Kennan in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986).
see also Lawrence Kaplan, The United States and NATO: The Formative Years, (Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1970).
On Schumacher’s views, see Lewis J. Edinger, Kurt Schumacher (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965).
for broader leadership views see Hans Speier and Philips Davison (eds), West German Leadership and Foreign Policy (Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, 1957).
See the only volume of Adenauer’s memoirs to be published in English, Memoirs, 1954–1953 (Chicago: Henry Regenery, 1965).
See here Lawrence Martin, ‘The American Decision to Rearm Germany’, in Harold Stein (ed.), American Civil-Military Decisions (Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1963).
Compare the perspectives reported in Robert McGeehan, The German Rearmament Question (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971).
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See on EDC’s details Daniel Lerner and Raymond Aron, France Defeats EDC (New York: Praeger, 1957).
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See here the discussion of Roscoe Drummond and Gaston Coblentz, Duel at the Brink: John Foster Dulles’ Command of American Power (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960).
See here David N. Schwartz, NATO’s Nuclear Dilemmas (Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1983).
For a description of the gap between expectations and the actual operation of the Versailles system, see Keith L. Nelson, Victors Divided (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).
See the critical set of discussions in Karl Kaiser and Pierre Lellouche (eds), Le couple franco-allemand et la defence de l’Europe (Paris: IFRI, 1986).
For an account of the history and evolution of these provisions, see Catherine Kelleher, ‘The Central Defense Organization of the Federal Republic’, in Robert Art, Vince Davis, and Samuel Huntington (eds), Reorganizing America’s Defenses: Leadership in War and Peace (New York and London: Pergamon-Brassey, 1985).
See David Schoenbaum’s review account, ‘The World War II Allied Agreement on Occupation and Administration of Postwar Germany’, in Alexander L. George, Philip J. Farley and Alexander Dallin (eds), US-Soviet Security Cooperation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
See here Kelleher, Defense Policy, and for a particular German view, Peter Schwartz, ‘The Out-of-Area Issue: Is NATO an Island?’, in Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Gale A. Mattox (eds), Evolving European Defense Policies (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1987).
Even the word itself reflects the anathema this reflects in the minds of practitioners of the Anglo-American, civil-military tradition. See Eliot Cohen, Citizens and Soldiers: The Dilemmas of Military Service (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).
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Szabo, S.F. (1990). Introduction. In: Szabo, S.F. (eds) The Bundeswehr and Western Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11032-2_1
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