Word: arsenal
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...State had completed 7 ½ hours of testimony, he had moved beyond Kant in arguing forcefully that today the U.S. must seek peace by pursuing two parallel paths: one attempting to find areas of cooperation with the Soviet Union and the other ensuring that the nation's military arsenal is strong enough to preserve the balance of power. Kissinger's appearance helped transform the proceedings into one of the most probing analyses in years of the nation's military strength and its relations with the U.S.S.R...
...find a formula that preserves each superpower's "capacity to retaliate" against a nuclear strike, "thereby reducing the incentive and capacity for surprise attack." It is not enough simply to advocate a reduction in atomic arms, he added. Concern for national security requires building a huge weapons arsenal while the efforts are under way to build an enduring peace. Said he: "How to avoid nuclear war without succumbing to nuclear blackmail-this is the overwhelming problem of our period...
That generation dwarfs the small and ordinary managers of today. Roosevelt and his successors could harness immense resources of economic wealth, political power and military might for the state. The New Deal, Lend-Lease, World War II mobilization, the Manhattan Project, the Marshall Plan, the building of the nuclear arsenal and the civil rights legislation of the mid-'60s?all were the work of presidential leaders who used taxation, legislation, executive orders and persuasion to enlist enormous latent resources...
...VIET NAM. Hanoi's 600,000-man army has proved itself eminently capable of fighting conventional wars as well as guerrilla operations when copiously supplied from the outside. Viet Nam's formidable arsenal includes American-made equipment that was captured intact with the fall of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu: 800,000 M-16 rifles, 550 tanks, 130,000 tons of ammunition and 1,000 aircraft of varying types. Lately, Hanoi has acquired some highly effective Soviet-made weaponry, including 900 medium and light tanks. Its 300 combat aircraft, mostly MiGs, are of Soviet...
...major battle for about 150 years, although a few Thai units saw limited action in Korea and Viet Nam. While the Thai soldier would give a good account of himself if his country were invaded, he would be hamstrung by inexperienced leadership and unsophisticated weapons. The country's arsenal consists mainly of 149 aircraft and 150 U.S.-made M41 light tanks. On order are 149 British-made Scorpion reconnaissance vehicles that one local military specialist described as a "Jeep with a 76-mm gun on top." The illogical purchase of the Scorpions was arranged by a Thai general with...