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Fiction ‘European capabilities. upheld by the NATO treaty—to com- mit or not to commit the nuclear force. But Gallois tends to ignore the fact that not all operational jobs can be carried out singly by each member, that some tasks require multinational cooperation (instead of multilateral integration), and that simultaneous joint decisions on nuclear commit- ment, if and when politically prac- tical, are operationally more effective than successive national decisions. Both the American and French ap- proaches to NATO are erroneous. The United States is wrong in opposing legitimate defense policies on the part of jits allies, especially since Soviet nuclear offensive and defensive power continues to grow more rapidly than

Gallois is wrong in assuming that France can be a genuine sanctuary soon and in denying that the vital interests of several states can ever be identical. The American addiction to the non- proliferation treaty, which would re- place NATO by a U.S.-USSR entente,

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Guy Davenport

Fiction ‘European capabilities. upheld by the NATO treaty—to com- mit or not to commit the nuclear force. But Gallois tends to ignore the fact that not all operational jobs can be carried out singly by each member, that some tasks require multinational cooperation (instead of multilateral integration), and that simultaneous joint decisions on nuclear commit- ment, if and when politically prac- tical, are operationally more effective than successive national decisions. Both the American and French ap- proaches to NATO are erroneous. The United States is wrong in opposing legitimate defense policies on the part of jits allies, especially since Soviet nuclear offensive and defensive power continues to grow more rapidly than

Gallois is wrong in assuming that France can be a genuine sanctuary soon and in denying that the vital interests of several states can ever be identical. The American addiction to the non- proliferation treaty, which would re- place NATO by a U.S.-USSR entente,