Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told that the new equipment they had hoped to get for training was being sent to Europe for the stockpile. Weinberger has already said that he will continue the European stockpiling program, but has not specified at what level. Unless the program is reduced in fiscal 1983, top military brass will be unable to believe that the Administration intends to do anything much about equipping the reserves...
...hours and returns home with a full briefcase for postdinner consideration. He lives in a $750,000 town house near Washington's Embassy Row with his wife of 38 years, Jane; they have two children and two grandchildren. His tireless approach to studying defense problems has generally impressed Pentagon brass. Observes one senior official: "It's impossible to snow Cap." Says another: "He has been briefed and rebriefed and rebriefed, and each time his questions are more sharply focused." The Secretary is also praised for keeping his meetings on the right track. Says one of his aides: "The old obfuscating...
Weinberger's redistribution of Pentagon power has enhanced his standing with the brass, but at the same time, it has compelled him to crack down on the services' long tradition of competition and bickering. "Cap has said over and over again that he will not stand for gamesmanship," says an aide. Weinberger quickly demonstrated that he means it. He intervened in the bitter interservice dispute over the Rapid Deployment Force by creating a new four-service command for Southwest Asia. Once when several Air Force generals fell into disagreement over some very basic figures on aircraft costs, Weinberger ended...
...authorize funds to improve them on the ground that it would be a waste of money to maintain facilities that were surely about to be abandoned. The Viet Nam War made maintenance of these bases a secondary concern. After that, improvements were further delayed while diplomats and Army brass tried to persuade the West Germans and NATO to share the cost. West Germany has agreed in principle to offer "host support" but has yet to appropriate a pfennig. Meanwhile, there remains little pressure in Congress to improve maintenance-especially abroad, where jobs would largely go to foreign civilians...
Nobody doubts that the Mujahedin possess the stealth, cunning and means to carry out such a lethal operation. They once put under the brass cover of a rice dish a bomb that killed one of the Shah's judges as he pondered the fate of some guerrillas. They have other skills as well...