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The Law Of The Flag, The Law Of Extradition, The Nato Status Of Forces Agreement, And Their Application To Members Of The United States Army National Guard, Fred W. Beesley, Jr.
The Law Of The Flag, The Law Of Extradition, The Nato Status Of Forces Agreement, And Their Application To Members Of The United States Army National Guard, Fred W. Beesley, Jr.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
With the advent of Project Capstone in 1980, the United States Army adopted a master European war plan which committed virtually every Army National Guard and Army Reserve unit to a large-scale field army for use in the European Theater of Operations. The plan was designed to combat a hypothetical offensive by tank-heavy Warsaw Pact forces through the centuries-old Fulda Gap invasion route in the central region of the Federal Republic of Germany, or through the relatively vulnerable North German Plain.
Actions by Warsaw Pact troops in Poland and Afghanistan increase the likelihood that United States contingency war planning will …