Word: caspar
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Reagan may be changing all this. In strategic matters, he has ordered Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to "close the gap" with the Soviet Union. Reagan has not tried to dictate whether the U.S. should have bigger warheads or how they should be launched. He will make the final decisions on these military matters, but he is above the disputatious process of determining exactly what range of choice the U.S. faces...
...assess sophisticated modern weaponry, Correspondent Jerry Hannifin not only talked with Army generals, civilian experts, scientists and military aviators but also went up for a test ride in an F18, the latest U.S. combat plane. Correspondent Roberto Suro spent the past five months tracking Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, this week's cover subject, and interviewed academic experts and defense industry executives. He found that the language of war has also become more sophisticated. Says he: "One learns that the future is the 'outyears' and that battles no longer have front lines but instead have FEBAs-for Forward...
...issue is nothing less than how best to deter a Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. The complexities are so tangled that they have preoccupied Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger almost from the day last January that he moved into the E Ring of the Pentagon, and they have given countless anxious moments to Commander in Chief Ronald Reagan as well. But the legislative timetable permits no further delay. So, before Congress breaks for its monthlong August recess, the Administration hopes to disclose what kind of missile and bomber forces it proposes to deploy to maintain U.S. retaliatory capacity...
...incident is already a Pentagon legend. On one of his first days as Secretary of Defense, Caspar W. Weinberger, 63, arrived at his desk to find a report giving the reasons for a single budget item; it was 2,916 pages long. Weinberger hit the roof, to the extent that his easygoing temper can fly. He called for an all-out war on the stultifying proliferation of paper and procedures throughout the department. As a senior official put it, the bureaucratic problem of putting together a budget had become so imposing that "the numbers were driving the policy...
...consensus that the U.S. would lose credibility throughout the Arab world if it announced a resumption of F-16 deliveries on the very day that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had once more escalated the stakes in the Middle East, and used U.S. weapons to do it. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger took a hard line in the discussions, arguing that the U.S. could not continue to have its nose tweaked by Israel...