Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration planners also contend that a continued arms buildup now is essential to arms reduction later. General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asserts that the strengthening of American fighting capability has "forced the Soviets to come back to arms-control talks in Geneva," which are now scheduled to resume March 12. If those talks are to succeed, added Weinberger, the Soviets must be convinced that the U.S. is determined to keep adding to its muscle. Testifying last week to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Weinberger insisted that "reductions in the defense budget will prolong negotiations...
...warnings about the Soviet Union's impending military threat. What shocked him most, according to associates, was a series of intelligence briefings that documented the extent of Soviet technological progress during his six years out of office. "I was astounded," Weinberger told Writer Theodore White, a Harvard classmate. "Their buildup had gone so far and so fast, and all of it was in offensive, not defensive, weapons." Weinberger concluded, and still believes, that the Soviets are intent on "world domination." Weinberger had no trouble conveying the urgency of his concern to the one man in a position to do something...
...Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable of offensive action.' " The New York Times reports that not even " 'a water pistol, as one official put it,' " had got through to Cuba...
...tide the arms-control process over its current crisis. It would be a way of buying time and improving the atmosphere for East-West diplomacy. Also, America's allies would be mightily relieved and more likely to follow U.S. leadership on steps to strengthen the alliance, such as a buildup in conventional forces. Congress and U.S. public opinion would be similarly reassured, and similarly more inclined to support Administration defense programs...
...ironic appointment for a career officer with a reputation for being at odds with the party's views on military strategy. The precise reason for his demotion remains unknown; Western military analysts suggest that the marshal might have been dismissed because he favored a conventional over a nuclear buildup...