tokin opposition posted:

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Cybernetic Vermin posted:

the important thing to remember is that every war, especially those that don't happen, is about nato, the freedom it provides, and the funding it needs.

Mr Hootington posted:

NATO is NEATO

an actual dog posted:

https://twitter.com/haunted_eggs/status/1492204333903011844

Tankbuster posted:

Is this where I apply for NATO membership?

ted hitler hunter posted:

Lord of Pie posted:

Horseshoe theory posted:

NATO is a paper tiger - A Good Cartoon.

Lord of Pie posted:

Lord of Pie posted:

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Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer, whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and West Germany. Heusinger joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier. He served as the Operations Chief within general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Nazi German Armed Forces from 1938 to 1944, before being appointed acting chief of the general staff for two weeks in 1944 after his predecessor (Kurt Zeitzler) resigned his post due to a nervous breakdown. He was then appointed head of the military cartography office when the war ended. He later became a general for West Germany and served as head of the West German military from 1957 to 1961 as well as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.

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Hans Speidel (28 October 1897 – 28 November 1984) was a German general, who was one of the major military leaders of West Germany during the early Cold War. The first full General in West Germany, he was a principal founder of the Bundeswehr and a major figure in German rearmament, integration into NATO and international negotiations on European and Western defence cooperation in the 1950s. He served as Commander of the Allied Land Forces Central Europe (COMLANDCENT) from 1957 to 1963 and then as President of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs from 1964.

Speidel joined the German Army in 1914, fought in the First World War, and stayed with the Army as a career soldier after the war. He served as chief of staff to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel during the Second World War and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1944. Speidel participated in the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler, and he was tasked with recruiting Rommel for the resistance. After the plot failed he was arrested by the Gestapo. At the end of the war, he escaped from Nazi prison and went into hiding for 2-3 weeks. He was the only major player in the 20 July Plot to survive the war.

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Reinhard Gehlen (3 April 1902 – 8 June 1979) was a German lieutenant-general and intelligence officer. He was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East military intelligence service on the eastern front during World War II, spymaster of the CIA-affiliated anticommunist Gehlen Organisation (1946–56) and the founding president of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany (1956–68) during the Cold War.

Gehlen became a professional soldier in 1920 during the Weimar Republic. In 1942, he became chief of FHO, the German Army's military intelligence unit on the Eastern Front (1941–45). He achieved the rank of major general before he was fired by Adolf Hitler in April 1945 because of the FHO's "defeatism",[1] the pessimistic intelligence reports about Red Army superiority.[2]

In late 1945, following the 7 May surrender of Germany and the start of the Cold War, the U.S. military (G-2 Intelligence) recruited him to establish the Gehlen Organisation, an espionage network focusing on the Soviet Union. The organisation would employ former military officers of the Wehrmacht as well as former intelligence officers of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).[3] As head of the Gehlen Organization he sought cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), formed in 1947, resulting in the Gehlen Organization ultimately becoming closely affiliated with the CIA.

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Johannes "Macky" Steinhoff (15 September 1913 – 21 February 1994) was a Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, German general, and NATO official. He was one of very few Luftwaffe pilots who survived to fly operationally through the whole of the war period 1939–45. Steinhoff was also one of the highest-scoring pilots with 176 victories, and one of the first to fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter in combat as a member of the Jagdverband 44 squadron led by Adolf Galland. Steinhoff was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, and later received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and several foreign awards including the American Legion of Merit and the French Legion of Honour. He played a role in the so-called Fighter Pilots' Revolt late in the war, when several senior air force officers confronted Hermann Göring.

Steinhoff was invited by West Germany's new interim government to rebuild the Luftwaffe within NATO, eventually rising to the rank of full general. Steinhoff became the German Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in 1960, served as Acting Commander Allied Air Forces Central Europe in NATO 1965–1966, as Inspector of the Air Force 1966–1970 and as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1971–1974.

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During the Second World War Kielmansegg served in various divisions, staff regiments and fronts in Poland, France and Russia. From 1942 to 1944 he served as General Staff officer to the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW).

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Then Kielmansegg, from 1958 to 1960, commanded the 5th Panzer Division in Koblenz as a major general. In 1961, he commanded the 10th Panzer Grenadier Division in Sigmaringen. In 1963 he was again active in the International area and was, since 5 July 1963, as lieutenant general of NATO's Supreme Command, of Allied Land Forces Central Europe in Fontainebleau, in France. In 1965, he was awarded with the Freiherr-vom-Stein Prize. On 15 March 1967, he was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of NATO's forces in Central Europe, first in Fontainebleau, France, and then in Brunssum, in the Netherlands.

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In 1933, Ferber entered the service of the 19th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr as an officer cadet and served there until 1939. Transferred to the Wehrmacht , he took part as a company commander in the invasion of Poland , which ushered in the Second World War . After this campaign he was promoted to the staff of the XXVII. Army corps under General of the Infantry Alfred Wäger and took part with the corps in the western campaign in 1940.

After promotion to captain , Ferber completed the abbreviated general staff training . He was then transferred as Second General Staff Officer (Ib) to the 134th Infantry Division under the command of General of the Mountain Troops Hans Schlemmer , where he took part in the advance on Belarus as part of the Russian campaign . After that he was briefly a battalion commander and was then transferred to the general staff of the 2nd Panzer Army under Generaloberst Rudolf Schmidt .

When he was promoted to Major , Ferber took over the duties of Captain Ulrich de Maizière , who later became Chief Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , in the Organizational Department of the Army High Command in February 1943 , and was thus responsible for structuring, setting up and refreshing the field army divisions. After he had also taken over personnel replacement planning for the field army for non-commissioned officers and enlisted men, Ferber became group leader in this organizational department in the summer of 1944. On April 20, 1945, shortly before the German capitulation, Ferber was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the general staff (i.G.).

During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross , First Class.
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After only two years in office, Ferber was promoted to general and took over command of NATO's Allied Forces Central Europe in Brunssum , the Netherlands , from General Jürgen Bennecke on October 1, 1973 .

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Karl-Heinz Schnell[2] (10 January 1915 – 13 March 2013)[3] was a German Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross and the Iron Cross during World War II. For the fighter pilots, it was a quantifiable measure of skill and success. Schnell was credited with 72 aerial victories in over 500 combat missions.

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On October 1, 1975, General Schnell took over the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Central Europe (CINCENT), replacing his predecessor General Ferber.

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Franz-Joseph Schulze (18 September 1918 – 31 January 2005) was a German general who was the Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe (NATO). During World War II, he served in the Luftwaffe and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.