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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...
...Thursday, the day of the Budget Committee meeting, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger finally agreed to accept a 7.9% increase. Five minutes before the vote, Reagan called Domenici to ask for more time to negotiate. The conversation was heated. "No, we're too far along," Domenici replied. At Democratic insistence, Reagan's proposal for 10.7% was put to a vote. It failed in the Republican-dominated committee by 19 to 2. The final slap came when the committee passed, by a 17-to-4 majority, an increase of only 5%. That would trim up to $13 billion from...
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...