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Since 1975 the Army and Air Force have been allocating increasing resources to conventional weapons and missions. But so widely is it felt that more must be done that the Pentagon plans to spend most of any budget boost it gets on its conventional forces. Initially, says Jones, the extra...
Providing these needed vehicles would cost about $4 billion. An extra $600 million is needed annually by the Army just for enough bullets, artillery shells and mortar rounds for adequate training. So tight has money been that Army crews training in Europe have been allowed to fire only one TOW...
Amphibious Forces. Sending in the Marines has traditionally been one of the nation's most effective means of intervening in distant lands. There is concern now, however, over whether the Leathernecks could really reach the beaches. Declares Nunn: "If the U.S. Marines were called upon to undertake a major landing...
At this, Jones is an ace. During the current SALT II ratification hearings, he has made numerous trips up Capitol Hill to testify. Leaning intently across the witness table, with rows of ribbons* glistening on his four-starred uniform, he has persuasively argued the military case: that SALT II is...
Final verdict: no crime, much chaos in Carter finances very nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse, and no funds were unlawfully diverted in either direction." With that exculpatory conclusion, Special Counsel Paul J. Curran last week wrapped up his exhaustive, seven-month dig...