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...more indicative of Congress's attitude was the favorable action taken on the fiscal 1984 defense budget. The House followed the Senate and by a close vote (217 to 208) approved funds for the MX missile and by a wider margin (247 to 175) funds for the B-l bomber...
...debate over defense spending has put the spotlight on such high-tech hardware items as the MX missile and the B-l bomber. But the less glamorous yet still important elements of the nation's defense arsenal have sometimes received less illumination than they should. A case in point: U.S. minesweepers...
...attempted to focus attention on the need to build weapons that will work and to develop doctrines that are adaptable to fighting the battles of the future. It has also addressed the widespread evidence of waste and mismanagement in military spending, whether for major strategic systems like the B-l bomber or basic weapons such as tanks and rifles. The reformers argue that new systems should be carefully examined not only for what they can do on paper, but what they can do in actual combat-and at what cost. The central question: how to get more bang...
...weigh risks and make complex decisions and not be overwhelmed." His system of analysis, balancing probabilities and consequences, can be used to help make important personal decisions, such as whether a cancer patient should have chemotherapy, and to tackle public policy questions, such as whether to build the B-l bomber...
...have little concern about the poor, students, the afflicted. He has oversupplied the military with funding for the kinds of weapons they have been requesting for 15 or 20 years and other Presidents have refused. Not only is it unnecessary, it is an improper allocation of priorities. The B-l bomber is a waste of money. The densepack MX missile system seems ridiculous to me. I am concerned too that the nonproliferation effort has fairly well been abandoned...