Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western alliance is ready. Warned of the enemy buildup by spy satellite photos, NATO'S divisions are at full strength and alerted. Using only conventional weapons, NATO is able to absorb much of the punch and launch selected counterattacks, thus slowing the advance sufficiently to give the alliance a chance to reinforce its divisions, to search for diplomatic solutions and-most important of all-to have time to assess when, if and how nuclear weapons should be used...
...Ministers at NATO headquarters near Brussels. A classified combat effectiveness report, prepared for NATO Commanding General Alexander Haig, will serve as a tough briefing paper for the meetings. Haig's conclusion: the alliance's conventional ground forces are weak and must be strengthened. Because of the Soviet buildup, warns Haig, "NATO will have less and less warning of a potential Soviet offensive." The most charitable assessment that one NATO ambassador can offer about the organization: "It is a healthy cripple...
...sudden military threat, NATO could not mount a credible deterrent-at present force levels and with the present economic and political weaknesses of many Western governments. In terms of numbers, the alliance today is outmanned, outgunned, out-tanked and out-planed. This is primarily the result of the massive buildup of Soviet armed forces that began ten years ago and has yet to slacken (TIME, March 8). A top NATO official points out that the U.S.S.R. now turns out a new submarine every five weeks and 800 warplanes a year. This year alone, it added 2,000 new tanks...
...Daedalus, as its authors would have you believe, is no ordinary journal. In his preface to the fall 1976 edition, The Editor explains that the work is arranged thematically and integrated logically so as to provide the unity of a book-length treatise. Maybe it is that prefatory buildup which makes the 12 essays contained in this issue entitled "American Civilization: New Perspectives" seem so disjointed and singularly irrelevant. The veil of pretension that Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, casts by claiming to have arrived at novel perspectives, does a great deal...
...there's a very key difference. I negotiated in Vladivostok a freeze on launchers and multiple warheads which resulted in the Soviet Union having to cut back about 200 launchers from their projected program, and it didn't have any adverse impact at all on our projected buildup, while Mr. Carter-I think very mistakenly, and I guess it's a lack of knowledge-wants to put a freeze on. [The SALT agreement reached at Vladivostok in 1974 limits both the U.S. and the Soviet Union to 2,400 strategic bombers and missiles and forbids each nation...