Talk:Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

Eisenhower?

This article needs more on the early history of SHAPE. Where's Eisenhower? ---204.196.238.252 20:31, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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US led

i wondered if there any information on why its always US led? is it part of the Nato constitution that an american has to be in command? or has it just worked out that way? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.104.87 (talk) 18:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

These decisions on which nation gets which slot are the product of internal NATO horse-trading, from the 1950s to this day. Both SACEUR and SACLANT, it was agreed in the early 1950s, were to be American officers, and it has to be remembered that when the decisions were taken European forces were still in their rebuilding stages after World War II. The Chairman of the Military Committee and Secretary-General of NATO are always Europeans. Buckshot06 (talk) 10:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Note that after France rejoined the Command Structure, SACT (who used to be SACLANT until the command structure reform in 2006) became the French Air Force General Stéphane Abrial on 29 July 2009. Jackieeaton 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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Happy Birthday SHAPE

Le commandant suprême des forces alliées en Europe (SACEUR), l’amiral américain James Stavridis, a présidé vendredi une cérémonie célébrant le 60ème anniversaire du grand quartier général des Forces alliées en Europe (SHAPE), 44 ans après son installation en Belgique, selon Soir.

Après le retrait de la France du commandement militaire de l’OTAN décidé par le général Charles de Gaulle, le SHAPE a déménagé. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.81.20.127 (talk) 20:32, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Flight1":

• From Exercise Mainbrace: "The NATO Exercises, Part 1" Flight (September 26, 1952) p. 402-404.
• From Allied Joint Force Command Naples: "The NATO Exercises, Part 1" Flight (September 26, 1952) p. 402-404

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:39, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

It's not May the 4th

but I don't mind seeing Scaparrotti's name up.Cantab1985 (talk) 09:28, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Article Organization

I would like to point out that this article has two reference sections. I do not believe this is a generally accepted practice for Wikipedia articles. If I am mistaken, please feel free to correct me. 27.125.165.242 (talk) 18:09, 18 February 2024 (UTC)