Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indo-Pakistani Relations. We would like to improve our relations very much and finish off this confrontation that has been there for years. President Zia ul-Haq spoke very positively when he was here in November, (but that) has not been translated into action by his officials. The arms buildup in Pakistan is certainly a danger. The types of weapons (supplied mainly by the U.S.) that are coming in are such that they are unlikely to be used in Afghanistan, which is the ostensible use for them. We would like a reduction in the level and sophistication of arms that...
...Soviets' most significant gain in this period came in submarine-launched missiles. While concerned about the Soviet submarine buildup, Pentagon analysts remain confident that the U.S. retains a solid superiority in the highly elusive submarine deterrent and see no imminent breakthrough in submarine detection that would jeopardize this advantage...
...Weinberger jumped into the budget wars after all other departments and the President had tentatively agreed to slash a painful $34 billion next year from what is now spent on domestic programs. In a series of White House meetings, Weinberger at first argued against any slowdown in the military buildup, then suggested that it was up to others, not him, to find soft spots in the $333.7 billion he wants Congress to authorize for fiscal 1986, which begins next October. Finally, he offered some bookkeeping savings of $6 billion that would leave all weapons development and Pentagon spending plans untouched...
Besides, the Administration did have its successes. The arms buildup may have been excessive, and ill-advised in some particulars. But it was plainly necessary. It constitutes the most important single "foreign policy" action by Reagan so far. Another clear achievement was the missile deployment for NATO, in the teeth of all-out Soviet opposition. Dealings with China, despite decades of a deep Republican commitment to Taiwan, were prudent and professional. The same may be said, at the risk of considerable disagreement, about the Reagan policy toward South Africa. In other instances, policy was muddled through lack of skill...
...open contempt for arms control expressed by some members of the Reagan circle and the unrealistic proposals for cuts offered at the outset of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) have obscured a central fact: the major source of the problem lies in the Soviets' own aggressive nuclear buildup and their excessive view of what they require for their own security. Thus even a "reformed" Reagan Administration with a more tolerant approach to arms control may not get anywhere with the Soviets...