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Reagan campaigned on a Republican platform that explicitly called for the restoration of American military superiority. A year after the election, in November 1981, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger still termed a buildup "a necessary prerequisite" to negotiations. The idea of "negotiating from strength" is sound, and there is a superficial logic to the Weinberger position. But aside from its debatable starting premise that the U.S. is now inferior, that position spells trouble on two counts. First, regardless of what "net assessment" he or any military analyst might make about the Soviet-American balance, Weinberger's Soviet counterpart, Dmitri Ustinov...
Worst of all, Watt might easily have invited Randy Newman to sing his newest hit, with its chorus "Let's drop the big one." Caspar Weinberger might have taken the song seriously, and then where would...
Billion-dollar cost overruns? Massive problems in paying for weapons? When Pentagon Analyst Franklin Spinney (TIME, March 7) raised these possibilities in explosive congressional testimony, his superiors loftily replied that these were merely "historical" problems that Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's cost cutters have brought under control. Moreover, they hinted that they would shortly have proof in the form of a new report on weapons costs. Spinney's boss, David Chu, promised the Senate Armed Services Committee "a pleasant surprise." The Pentagon unveiled the document last week, and the chief surprise turned out to be how clumsy...
...tension that flared over the Middle East last week involved not the usual combatants, Arabs and Jews, but two forces that are supposed to be friendly: the U.S. Marine Corps and the Israeli Defense Forces. In a scathing letter to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, which was later released by the Pentagon, U.S. Marine Commandant General Robert Barrow complained that Israeli forces in Lebanon have consistently "harassed, endangered and degraded" U.S. troops. He asserted that the Israelis "persist in creating serious incidents" and suggested that these episodes had been "timed, orchestrated and executed for obtuse Israeli political purposes...
...report, which was presented at a press conference by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, contains a mixture of good news and bad. "I think we have begun to catch up," said Weinberger. One source of comfort: the production rate of many major Soviet weapons has tapered off slightly, at least for now. But the study also shows that in every category of armaments, from missiles to submarines to aircraft, the Soviets are continuing their drive for new offensive systems. "They seem to aim at world domination," said Weinberger. "We need sufficient and credible military capabilities to counter the threats arrayed against...