Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility that the Soviet troops are in Cuba to forestall a Cuban uprising while Castro sends his own troops to do the Soviets' work around the globe, including probably the Panama Canal and the rest of Central and South America. Does anyone seriously believe they are there to attack Key West...
...maintained, in fact, that a nation's most fundamental social-welfare obligation to its citizens is to defend them against attack. The responsibility for this is entrusted to the armed forces, but the U.S. military has been denied sufficient resources to fulfill the responsibility...
...strategic balance sets the tone for what goes on in the rest of the world." The Administration has just taken an important step in this area by approving a $33 billion, ten-year program for the MX ICBM. The movable MX is theoretically invulnerable to surprise attack, so when the Pentagon starts deploying the first of these missiles in Utah and Nevada in 1986, the window of vulnerability will begin closing. The U.S. has also been moving ahead with the $4.4 billion air-launched cruise missile program; the 1980 budget provides $90 million for it. Under the current timetable...
...nuclear attack submarines. The admirals would like an extra $2 billion to $2.5 billion for shipbuilding in 1980. This would buy two more attack submarines, one more destroyer armed with the devastatingly accurate AEGIS guided-missile weapons system, a landing ship for the Marines and two oilers. The oiler shortage typifies the Navy's plight. While at least 21 oilers are needed to keep the fleet steaming, only 16 are available and ten of these were commissioned before the end of World War II. Mines are also scarce, and torpedo stockpiles are so low that there are not even enough...
...start-up costs for the first $300 million LSD-41, a 15,774-ton amphibious vessel that could carry about 340 Marines. But senior officers would like a commitment of $1.2 billion for four of the new LSDs. The Marines also want 336 British-designed, vertical-takeoff Harrier attack planes (cost: $5.7 billion), plus 33 heavy-lift and attack helicopters ($400 million for the first year's production). Bringing Marine Corps ammunition stockpiles up to a level that could sustain combat operations would cost an extra $1.5 billion; improving battlefield command systems would run $400 million...