Word: cheney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cheney and Powell make three arguments in favor of the cutbacks: 1) the runaway federal deficit dictates smaller defense budgets, 2) the Soviet threat has declined, and 3) quality can replace quantity...
...Oddly, Cheney also wants to phase out some of the battle equipment that the public has only begun to recognize. The M1A1 tank as well as the Bradley fighting vehicle, both hardy workhorses in the gulf, will no longer be produced. Assembly lines for the AH-64 Apache and AH-1S Cobra helicopters, so efficient in the fighting, will close; the Army wants a new heavy battle tank and a high-tech helicopter instead. The Navy will eliminate or scale back some weapons designed for battling the Soviets, including its Trident SLBM submarine program and its hunter-killer Seawolf submarine...
...Cheney wants to revive the case for other weapons whose demise seemed likely before the gulf war started. They include two costly gadgets that have played no role in Operation Desert Storm...
...developed long before SDI got to the drawing board. Still, SDI backers argue that the success of the Patriot teaches a significant lesson about the need to prepare against ICBMs. "All you'd have to do is watch the Scud missile battles over Tel Aviv and Riyadh," says Cheney, "to have a sense of the extent to which ballistic-missile capability is a threat to U.S. forces...
...second floor of the White House residence, his war cabinet was waiting. It was a warm evening for February; the fireplace was dark. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell was clad in a green turtleneck and sports jacket. Vice President Dan Quayle and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney wore tuxedoes, having come from a dinner for visiting Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. Cheney had removed his eyeglasses and was absentmindedly chewing one end of the frames. Like everyone else, he was studying a pair of freshly copied documents...