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Question 1 Is the SecDef "In charge of NATO"
Answer No

Question 2 Are more than a million people alive today and returned to their homes because of this
Answer Yes

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NATO Commander (SACEUR)

The top military commander is the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR). He is a US 4-star general who also reports to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as the commander-in-chief of all US forces in Europe. It is the responsibility of SACEUR to recommend deployments for all NATO forces in response to any perceived threats to NATO security. These recommendations must be approved by SHAPE before being executed.

(GM's note: For game purposes, SACLANT, the western Atlantic command of NATO, has been subsumed by US Atlantic Command, or CINCLANT.)

Generally speaking, the Atlantic Alliance (AA) faction of SHAPE will most likely approve the deployment of units to any area within NATO's jurisdiction as long as those units are available and are not needed by their home country. WEU nations, on the other hand, tend to only approve deployments that involve conflicts close to their own borders, pariticularly in central and eastern Europe.


For the record - Tony Blair had to convince Bill Clinton to proceed.