Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy reportedly refused to station one off the coast of Iran during the hostage crisis for fear it would be sunk. Yet the Navy justifies its desire for 15 carrier groups as necessary in case of a major war with the Soviet Union. The entire $96 billion five-year buildup of surface ships would only result in 70 more attack planes being available to project American might...
...crux of Spinney's analysis, titled The Plans/Reality Mismatch, is that the Administration's $1.6 trillion military buildup (which would amount to $20,000 for each U.S. household over the next five years) is likely to be underfunded by as much as 30%. This means that unless major new weapons are eliminated or other drastic changes made, the final bill may be $500 billion more than expected. The latest findings are a sequel to a 1980 Spinney report, Defense Facts of Life, which argued that the pursuit of complex technology has resulted in the production of weapons that...
...this was in the days of the U.S.'s uncontested strategic nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union. in the late '60s and early '70s, that comfortable margin in intercontinental weaponry gave way to parity, or rough equivalence. At the same time, the Soviets continued their buildup in military manpower and conventional forces within Europe until the Warsaw Pact had a considerable numerical edge over NATO...
...measures amount to much less than a wholesale retreat from Reaganomics. The President, indeed, sees himself quite accurately as making the minimal concessions necessary to keep a rebellious Congress from attacking the core of his program, chiefly the income tax cuts, the social spending rollback and the big military buildup. For that matter, the change in tone is also less than total. Echoes of the chipper, partisan Reagan of yore rang through the President's remarks last week, and doubtless will resound in the State of the Union speech as well. At his news briefing, Reagan once more pinned...
Baker's pragmatism was not always welcome. He had tried to persuade Reagan in 1981 to accept cuts in his record buildup of military spending and to increase taxes in order to avoid horrendous budget deficits. But he pushed too hard and too publicly, and was rebuffed. Stung, Baker patiently coaxed presidential aides to come around to his view. When they did, they presented a consensus that Reagan could scarcely ignore. "The President has discovered that Baker has been right in the long run," contends one aide...