The Rise and Fall of the European Defence Community
Subtitle: Anglo-American Relations and the Crises of European Defence, 1950-55 (Cold War History)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780312234829
Subjects: Military Policy; U.S. Foreign Relations; Political Science; History - Military / War; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; Military - General; Military Science; Political Science / International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Defenses; Europe, Western; European cooperation; Great Britain; Military relations; United States
First sentence: Despite reservations about its military effectiveness and the time it could take to create, the principle of a European Army - that which was enshrined in the Pleven Plan of October 1950 - was eventually accepted by the United States, Britain and the rest of NATO as the only way forward on the problem of German rearmament.