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...English scholar once wrote, "has been in a state of war every weekend since 1945." The gibe has more than a little truth to it. On weekends rifle ranges around the country resound with the din of thousands of Swiss practicing their marksmanship. At the same time, Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jets skim along mountain faces and blue-gray-uniformed figures clamber down couloirs and across alpine meadows. With a militia of 625,000 men, Switzerland, as the well-worn saying goes, does not have an army, it is an army...
...same time, the Vietnamese have sent their troops a mile into Thai territory, directing artillery fire at Thai villages and shelling a highway. The Thais angrily responded by sending F-5E fighter planes to dislodge Vietnamese soldiers and by dispatching a note of protest to the United Nations, charging the Vietnamese with "unprovoked and blatant acts of aggression." In Bangkok, the ambassadors of Viet Nam and the Soviet Union, which supports Viet Nam, were summoned to the foreign ministry for a stern lecture...
...Reagan Administration sought to soft-pedal Shanghai II as a document of diplomatic necessity rather than menace. "We have paid particular attention to the needs and interests of Taiwan," said Reagan, as his Administration formally announced, only two days after Shanghai II was issued, the sale of 60 F-5E fighters, worth some $240 million, to Taipei. The Taiwan government was not mollified by the sale. It has denounced the agreement as a "contravention of the letter and spirit of the [1979] Taiwan Relations Act" that pledged the U.S. to supply Taiwan with weapons for its defense...
...that the U.S. had a continuing obligation to help defend Taiwan. Soon after taking office, Reagan was faced with a request from Taiwan for advanced F-5G jet fighters. Although the President later tried to mollify the Chinese by proposing instead to extend coproduction of the less sophisticated F-5E jets, he irritated Peking by sending Congress a proposal last month to sell $60 million worth of military spare parts to Taiwan...
Another military lesson of the war is that world arms sales often beget unintended consequences. The flagship of the Argentine fleet is an aircraft carrier built by Britain; the Sheffield was sunk by a missile made in France. U.S. proposals to sell F-5E fighter jets to Taiwan have exacerbated another lingering territorial dispute. Vice President George Bush went to Peking last week to try to ease Sino-American tensions caused by the proposed arms sale...