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...years Washington has supported Israel with a staggering $6.9 billion worth of weapons, and this year, depending on the Congress, the total could rise by as much as $1.5 billion. In return for this largesse, Israel has provided U.S. military chiefs and arms makers with a unique opportunity: a battlefield laboratory, as it were, where advanced weapons and electronic systems have been tested in four Middle East wars. "We have learned more from the Israelis about Soviet equipment," admits a ranking U.S. Air Force general, "than we learned in Viet...
...argue, may have been honestly opposed to the war for reasons of conscience, since they refused to participate from the beginning. Deserters, on the other hand, took an oath to serve in the military, and then reneged on their commitments. Opponents often portray deserters as cowards who fled the battlefield...
This strategy has made sense to NATO, even though the alliance is so heavily outgunned on the battlefield. For one thing, NATO would be on the defensive, thus requiring significantly fewer troops than an attacker. NATO also benefits from advanced technology. Comparison of NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks serves as a good example of NATO'S superior equipment: although the mammoth Soviet T-62 is heavier than its Western rivals-the U.S.'s M60, Britain's Chieftain and West Germany's Leopard-it is less accurate, slower, and sports a vulnerably exposed rear fuel tank...
...effectiveness through duplication. It deploys, for instance, 31 different antitank missiles, six types of recoilless rifles and 41 varieties of naval guns. Within the Warsaw Pact, standardization is achieved because Moscow designs and produces nearly all of the weaponry. NATO's multiplicity of arms makes battlefield resupply a logistician's nightmare and vastly complicates coordinated combat. During NATO exercises last year, a number of the alliance's planes were "shot down" by friendly forces because the radios of one nation's aircraft could not communicate with another...
FIREPOWER. NATO needs more artillery, tanks and battlefield missiles. At a minimum, the U.S. should replenish the reserves of armored personnel carriers, howitzers, antitank missiles and tanks that were shipped from Europe to Viet Nam or Israel. Confesses Haig: "For a long period of time, we were sneaking supplies out of Europe." Allied arms depots should be better dispersed to make them less vulnerable to enemy attack. Most U.S. supplies are stored within 30 miles of West Germany's Kaiserslautern...