Except we had already shit the bed about CAST in Norway (Brave Lion) before
the "Beatty paper" "Challenge and Commitment, A Defence Policy for Canada" was issued. And though it was only two short years before the Wall fell, the White Paper and a lot of project planning that emanated from it was basing the main effort on "
Central Europe is the geographic focus of the wider contest between East and West. It is the centre of gravity in the balance of power. The greater concentration of of military power is found there. . . . is not necessarily the most likely place for conventional conflict to begin, . . . but it would quickly become the decisive battlefield". We hadn't won the Cold War, yet; that was still to be realized.
To somehow suggest that "The Army" was only focused on Germany because "politicians" wanted it so, gives more credit to the BGHs at NDHQ than they deserve.