GREAT BRITAIN: What Kind of War?

Britain is considering a one-third cut in its defense budget — upwards of $1 billion a year—designed to ease the strained economy and conform to Prime Minister Eden's theories about "modern weapons" and "strategic changes in other nations." Up to now the British have viewed the next war as a trading of H-bombs followed by a "broken-backed" struggle for recovery, but they now accept the doctrine of U.S. Admiral Arthur Radford and other top British and U.S. airmen that the first big blow will settle things. The British therefore want to concentrate...

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