ABSTRACT
There have, however, also been incredible problems associated with armaments cooperation. These, too, span a range of categories, and include: doctrinal and operational divergences, foreign and domestic political obligations and preferences, and industrial competitiveness. An examination of the Franco-German record supplies ample evidence of both the promise and the perils of armaments cooperation. Because the French have been all along more concerned with the defense-industrial aspects of cooperation than with its more strategic ones, they have felt a sense of acute disappointment, some say betrayal, in the growing reluctance of Germany to embrace more enthusiastically French initiatives in armaments cooperation. Germany especially benefited, once it began to rearm in 1955, from its cooperative relationship with France, for until it could erect its own defense industrial base, it was dependent upon the transfer of technology, usually through licensed production, from its more advanced allies.
