 It was this weakness that led first to the New Look of 1953, and then to the "New" New Look of 1955.The later, especially, aimed to counter any Warsaw Pact action in Europe with the use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield, allowing NATO's superior airpower to destroy the Warsaw Pact's massed armor.As part of this shift in policy, the majority of US military development and funding was sent to the US Air Force and US Navy, the Army was, to a degree, ignored.