Abstract
NATO required a military expression if it was to satisfy its political purpose. This required the development of national potentials into combined military capability. At the outset, the capability was insignificant, but the po tential based on the resources and the heritage of the free peoples of the West was virtually unlimited if will and unity existed. By capitalizing on that poten tial, we now have a capability which is a prime factor in world affairs.—Ed.
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