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Pentagon's point man found himself isolated, encircled and under siege last week. But Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger refused to surrender in his unflinching battle to protect the military budget from facing its share of the cuts made by the rest of the Administration in the drive to reduce the huge federal deficit...
...hang-up is on military spending. Stockman wants a reduction of $10 billion in the requested appropriation for fiscal 1986, $20 billion the following year and $30 billion in 1988. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger adamantly insists on a $333 billion request for 1986, which would be a 7% increase after adjustment for inflation. At a Thursday meeting in the White House, House G.O.R Leader Robert Michel and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt got into what a Reagan aide described as a "heated" exchange with Weinberger. The lawmakers' point: Congress will not buy civilian spending cuts of anything like...
Everyone agrees that the long, dreadful U.S. experience in Southeast Asia implies certain important truths about what the nation should and should not attempt overseas. But exactly what are those lessons? In military terms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger declared in an address last week, the conclusions are simple: pick wars carefully, make sure the public will cooperate, and then fight to win. Weinberger's rules are nothing new. Thoughtful U.S. military officers have been recommending the same deliberate course for some time. But Weinberger, rather surprisingly, has codified that consensus into an explicit checklist of the prerequisites for military...
...Administration's internal split on arms control remains so deep that significant progress may not be possible despite the President's accommodating intentions. On one side are the skeptics: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Perle and other Pentagon subordinates. Arrayed against them are the arms-control moderates: Shultz, his underlings and the White House staff. Even at the White House meetings last week to shape the U.S.-Soviet joint statement, admits a Pentagon official, the hawks practiced "constant skirmishing" to slow the momentum...
...most knowledge about nukes is dead set against limiting them. Richard Perle, the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, is more than capable of waging four more years of guerilla warfare against any plan for accomodation with the Soviets. Unless he and his patron, the Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38, can be forced from office, moderates in the Administration will scarcely have time to think of possible agreements, because they will be too busy lobbing mortar over the Potomac...