WI/PC The UK 'pulls a France' after the Suez Crisis?

France never left NATO.
In this timeline scenario if both Fance and UK leave the NATO command structure then they are effectively out of NATO. At least in the minds of American planners. France was allowed to have it's cake and eat it too in terms of having a defense industry but outsourcing most ( I know not all) the boots on the ground to the US as it was perceived that that they contributed little. In American public opinion, the UK leaving would have been considered a death blow to the alliance due to remaining mythology in the US regarding British forces. An American first policy with extra sauce for the Monroe doctrine in 1950-1960s possibly leading to direct intervention in Cuba but perhaps not in Vietnam.
 
In this timeline scenario if both Fance and UK leave the NATO command structure then they are effectively out of NATO. At least in the minds of American planners. France was allowed to have it's cake and eat it too in terms of having a defense industry but outsourcing most ( I know not all) the boots on the ground to the US as it was perceived that that they contributed little. In American public opinion, the UK leaving would have been considered a death blow to the alliance due to remaining mythology in the US regarding British forces. An American first policy with extra sauce for the Monroe doctrine in 1950-1960s possibly leading to direct intervention in Cuba but perhaps not in Vietnam.

Additionally, France left the NATO command structure in 1967, not in reaction to the Suez Crisis & Aftermarth. The UK 'pulling a France' doesn't imply leaving the command structure, because France didn't either (in 1956.)
 
Another thread on this subject, and *still* nobody speculates on whether it prevents the Beatles and the Rolling Stones etc. from happening. As reliable an oversight in this sort of thread as the rising of the sun.

(A different outcome of Suez might also have an effect on commercial TV in the UK, which struggled initially but boomed massively after Suez because the BBC's cultural model suddenly seemed much more old-fashioned overnight.)
 
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