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To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (3179)	12/11/2003 2:07:49 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 110194

Free lunch? You bet. The Warsaw Pact forces (175 divisions) would destroy the NATO forces (21 divisions) if war came. The only way of stopping that (and the reason the US would not renounce first use) was tactical nuclear weapons. This could easily escalate into strategic nukes. Who would take the brunt of that? The US, not Europe. The US also supplied the bulk of the forces. Their are good sound military reasons for commonality of equipment. Since the US did supply the largest portion of military force, it made sense to standardize to the US. The Europeans, should they pursue their current path, shall soon learn the usefulness of digging holes, then filling them in again.