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...reasons to push are crucial, and in the coming years they must be forced upon world leaders. The sheer size and sophistication of the U.S. and Soviet arsenals have increased so dramatically in recent years that there is now a tremendous danger of losing control of these forces. Battlefield weapons on the European frontier, for example, present the threat of elevating a conventional conflict to a type of war that even the most experienced generals concede is almost impossible to visualize. Proliferation to nations with no shake in or conception of global nuclear balance has yet to raise a specific...
...proliferation efforts while negotiating cuts. Considering the size of the existing deterrents. President Reagan's fears of the Soviets "getting ahead" seem laughable. We could also declare a joint no first use policy, or reposition European theater weapons further away from their targets to decrease the chance of battlefield escalation. All of these proposals were pushed before the public for the first time in the past year, and people must work to keep them alive until they are implemented...
...risk" if the Argentines attacked. According to Washington analysts, the original decision to invade was made by a handful of top-ranking officers without even consulting the corps commanders who would have to carry on the fighting. Suddenly saddled with a high-risk war, many of these battlefield commanders became bitter against the junta that pushed them into the fight and so have insisted that Argentina hold out for sovereignty over the islands. Says one State Department analyst: "The top generals were the ones to make the Malvinas the top national objective. So they must take responsibility if they fail...
...Thunderbolt 11 is a most unsophisticated plane. Pilots joke about being struck from behind by birds." That harsh assessment of an Air Force attack plane designed to provide close air support for battlefield troops comes from a top general of the Tactical Air Command. Why, then, is there $357 million in the Pentagon's fiscal 1983 budget for 20 more of the aircraft, each of which is $1.6 million costlier than the more sophisticated F-16 Fighting Falcon? The answer, insists the general: "We are buying them only because of political pressure...
...Minister Menachem Begin. Sharon covets Begin's job. "Arik would sacrifice everything, and I mean everything, to get the Prime Minister's post," says an Israeli general. Begin had misgivings about awarding the powerful Defense portfolio to Sharon, who had a reputation for disobeying superiors on the battlefield. Begin, who held the Defense post himself for more than a year after Ezer Weizman resigned in May 1980, once remarked to Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich: "Sharon might surround the Prime Minister's office with tanks." Not even Sharon's military colleagues trust his commitment to free...