Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of them sited in concrete-reinforced underground silos scattered across the Great Plains; 21 nuclear-powered submarines gliding stealthily through the world's oceans, their 336 slender missiles within range of Soviet targets; 90 B-52 bombers ready to take to the air on 15 minutes' alert; six aircraft-carrier task groups deployed in the world's oceans; five combat-ready divisions positioned in Germany from the Rhine to the East-West frontier...
...strategic forces between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, we can't rely solely on nuclear weapons" to deter a conventional attack against Western Europe. Brown has already begun bolstering U.S. conventional forces by adding some $600 million?to improve, among other things, maintenance facilities and shelters for U.S. aircraft in Europe?to a budget that he had slashed by an overall total of $2.7 billion...
...perhaps in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, the Horn of Africa, the Caribbean. To handle such contingencies, says Brown, the U.S. must retain the capability of reacting overseas with "speed and flexibility." This may best be achieved by keeping some troops abroad, either at land bases or aboard aircraft carriers. At times, a simple show of force, like ordering a naval task force to steam toward a potential trouble spot, can be enough to protect U.S. interests and prevent an outbreak of fighting...
...acts, he moved to spike the admiral's guns by slashing from the Navy's proposed budget $733.3 million -to be used to convert the nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach into an antimissile defense ship and to begin building a nuclear strike cruiser and a fifth nuclear aircraft carrier. The President apparently agreed with other Navy brass that money for new surface ships would be better spent on less costly oil-fired craft, such as frigates. This would leave Rickover with little more than the nuclear submarine program, which, important though it is, no longer fully captures...
...involved as an adviser. I do not try to take a functional role. Usually ten or twelve policy questions have to be answered before you can come forth with numbers. Do you have a B-l bomber or don't you? Do you have an additional aircraft carrier or don't you? What I will do is go through this stuff and then suggest to the President what I think ought to be done...