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NATO's Vanishing Armies
Johnson, Paul | April 13, 1957 issue

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Unfortunately, although NATO is withering away, it is doing so in a furtive and unsystematic manner. Unwilling to admit that the system is being dismantled as the result of a deliberate political decision, the West is foregoing the chance to extract, through negotiation, concessions from Russia in return. The inherent weakness of a foreign policy based mainly on military considerations is that, though military factors change rapidly, the politico-military institutions which the policy creates tend to become rigid and self-perpetuating, and in time constitute positive obstacles to the objectives which the policy sets out to attain.

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NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization; ARMED Forces; UNITED States -- Military policy; UNITED States -- Military relations; UNITED States -- Foreign relations; SOVIET Union -- Foreign relations; UNITED States; SOVIET Union
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