Word: armament
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Harvard's Stanley Hoffmann, a leading student of strategic affairs, noted last week in Washington that in every modern presidency, there has been a swing one way they another. The men who at first emphasized arms control found they had to pay more attention to armament. Those who came to power preoccupied with beefing up America's defense had to make room in their thinking for arms control...
...response, to leave open the "nuclear option"--and thus to avoid any arms control treaty which would outlaw nuclear war or eliminate nuclear weapons. As early as 1946, an important secret study prepared for Harry Truman concluded that the U.S. "should entertain no proposals for disarmament or limitation of armament as long as the possibility of Soviet aggression exists. Any discussion of the limitation of armaments should be pursued slowly and carefully with the knowledge constantly in mind that proposals on outlawing atomic warfare and long-range offensive weapons would greatly limit the United States' strength while only moderately affecting...
...soldiers' is declining, a major problem facing the army. Although the guerrillas are receiving equipment from outside sources, their success does not depend upon the quality of the rifles they carry. Indeed, journalists who have made numerous and often unscheduled visits to rebel units find that the most common armament is still a weathered carbine, and the heaviest a .50-cal. machine...
Second, the United States has to take the initiative in arms reduction. "The bilateral phase should come after," he said. He repeatedly stressed the danger of over-armament, which hinders deterrance by encouraging a first-strike mentality on both sides...
...thus has not been asked to take any of the new U.S. missiles. More important, France possesses its own nuclear defense, the force de frappe created by President Charles de Gaulle. "If France does not share this feeling [of fear], it is because it has its own nuclear armament," Mitterrand has declared. "We can look after our own defense ourselves...