David Miller - The Cold War - A Military History

The Preamble has been omitted; it sets out the overlying principles and identifies the national representatives at the meeting.

From 1949 to 1963 the NATO Military Committee in Chiefs-of-Staff Session was chaired by one of its members for a year each, rotating in order of the initial letters of the countries’ English names. From 1963 onwards it was chaired by the chairman of the NATO Military Committee.

The Military Committee in Permanent Session and (from 1963) the NATO Military Committee are constituted from officers representing their chiefs-of-staff and who are permanently located in Brussels. The NATO Military Committee in Chiefs-of-Staff Session still meets and is chaired by the chairman of the Military Committee.

Source: Conway’s All The World’s Fighting Ships: 1947–1995 (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995).

All data in this table refer to the initial service version of each type. Virtually all types went through many modifications, which resulted in increases in speed, range or payload.

Former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a letter to US president Harry S. Truman, November 1945; quoted in D. Cook, Forging the Alliance: NATO 1945–1950 (Secker & Warburg, London, 1989), p. 50.

Cook, Forging the Alliance , p. 163.

Keesing’s Contemporary Archives , 1949.

NATO Communiqué, Ministerial Meeting, 13–14 December 1967, paragraph 12.

Ibid., Annex, paragraph 14.

Soviet Military Power was issued by the US Department of Defense, Washington DC, in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990. A successor titled Military Forces in Transition , which perhaps significantly was printed in monochrome, was issued in 1991, but proved to be the final document in the series.

Whence The Threat To Peace? was issued by the Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defence, Moscow, in 1982 (1st edn), 1982 (2nd edn (supplemented)) and 1984 (3rd edn).

NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Force Comparisons was issued by the NATO Information Services, Brussels, in 1982, 1983 and 1984.

North Atlantic Council Meeting, 11–14 December 1956, Final Communiqué, paragraph 7.

Tony Geraghty, Beyond the Front Line (HarperCollins, London, 1996), p. 159.

North Atlantic Council in Ministerial Session, Brussels, 15–16 November 1968, Final Communiqué, paragraph 2.

NATO Special Meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers, Brussels, 12 December 1979, Final Communiqué, paragraph 7.

Ibid., paragraph 9.

NATO Communiqué, Defence Planning Committee Meeting, 1–2 June 1983.

NATO Nuclear Planning Group Meeting, 29–30 October 1985, Final Communiqué, paragraph 6.

NATO Communiqué, Defence Planning Committee, 14 June 1974, paragraph 12.

Geraghty, Beyond the Front Line , p. 334.

‘Warsaw Pact and the Polish Crisis in 1980–81’ (SED-State Research Group, Internet).

Raymond L. Garthoff (former US ambassador and fellow of the Brookings Institute), ‘When and Why Romania Distanced Itself from the Warsaw Pact’ (Internet: http://www.brook.edu).

Jonathan Eyal, ‘Romania: Looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction?’ Jane’s Soviet Intelligence Review , vol. 1, no. 8 (August 1989), pp. 378–82.

T. B. Cochrane, W. M. Arkin, R. S. Norris and M. M. Hoenig, Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume II: US Nuclear Warhead Production (Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1987), p. 154.

S. Glasstone and P. J. Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (US Department of Defense, Washington DC, 1977).

Ibid., pp. 522–3.

SIPRI, World Armaments and Disarmament Yearbook 1991 (SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden), pp. 46–7.

Annual Report to Congress: Fiscal Year 1987 (US Department of Defense, Washington DC, 1986).

V. D. Sokolovskiy, Soviet Military Strategy , 3rd edn, ed. H. F. Scott (Macdonald and Jane’s, London, 1975), p. 288.

Ibid., p. 289.

Sir John Hackett et al., The Third World War: August 1985 (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1978).

Lieutenant-Colonel G. T. Rudolph, ‘Assessing the Strategic Balance’ (paper submitted to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, June 1976), p. 16.

Soviet Military Power: 1987 (US Department of Defense, Washington DC), p. 29.

Ibid.

D. Hölsken, V-Missiles of the Third Reich: The V1 and V2 (Monogram Aviation Publications, Sturbridge, Mass., 1994), pp. 260–61.

Armed Forces Journal , January 1980, p. 35.

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1947–1995 (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995), p. 199, and Admiral A. Baldini, ‘The Missile Systems of the Italian Navy’, International Defense Review , IV (1969), p. 357. According to the latter, ‘This proved to be an ingenious and interesting solution which gave completely positive results when tested.’ It is possible, although there is no evidence for this, that the planned Polaris missiles for Italy were cancelled as part of the Cuban Missiles Crisis deal, in which Jupiter land-based missiles were withdrawn from Italy and Turkey. No evidence has been found of any other NATO ships of this era actually being fitted with Polaris tubes.

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1947–1995 , p. 342.

H. Wynn, The RAF Strategic Deterrent Forces: 1946–1969 (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1994), pp. 337–9.

A. Cave Brown (ed.), Operation World War III: The Secret American Plan ‘Dropshot’ for War With the Soviet Union, 1957 (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1979), pp. 208–9.

Bill Gunston, An Illustrated Guide to Modern Bombers (Salamander Books, London, 1988), p. 48.

Wynn, The RAF Strategic Deterrent Forces: 1946–1969 , p. 12.

Ibid., p. 273.

Ibid., p. 276.

Admiral Sir Ian Easton, formal statement to the ‘Polaris Successor’ seminar held at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies on 30 April 1980; reported in Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies , vol. 125, no. 3 (September 1980), p. 19.

David S. Yost, France’s Deterrent Posture and Security in Europe, Part I: Capabilities and Doctrine (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, Adelphi Paper No. 194, winter 1984/85), p. 14.