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...when the U.S. is still defining how it should project its power in a world where the ideological certitudes of the cold war have been replaced by raucous warlords and wild-eyed nationalists? When Clinton made his choice for the job last December, he could be sure that Les Aspin, who had made a career in Congress as an expert on defense policy, possessed the necessary devotion to the task. As it turns out, he should have wondered more whether Aspin also + had the bureaucratic agility and credibility to work with the armed services...
...reinforce the 37,000 American soldiers stationed in the South, deploy Patriot antimissile batteries or dispatch some aircraft carriers to bolster Seoul's army. "We are responsibly thinking about every conceivable thing that could happen, bad and good," said Clinton, after a briefing by Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and other senior defense officials...
...says 1979 and 1991 studies figure that the three defensive lines could probably be breached by a determined onslaught of North Korean artillery. If the South Korean defenses did break, the North could probably take the whole of the South in a week or two. To address these issues, Aspin has announced a yearlong study with South Korea to plug the holes identified by the Pentagon report...
President Clinton met with Defense Secretary Les Aspin and General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss options for dealing with North Korea's refusal to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities. Possible actions include sending an aircraft carrier and reinforcing Army troops on the Korean peninsula. The White House insisted that the review was only a precautionary measure. Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that it could no longer guarantee that North Korea was not constructing nuclear weapons...
Throughout the cold war, the hot line-- really a direct telex-- between the U.S. President and the Soviet Premier was used several times in critical moments. Defense Secretary Les Aspin will soon announce the establishment of a defense hot line between himself and the Russian defense chief, General Pavel Grachev...