Word: cheney
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Given the logistical and manpower problems the gulf war highlighted, the Pentagon might be expected to argue for a bigger military establishment in the future. The opposite is true. In testimony before two congressional committees last week, Pentagon bosses Dick Cheney and Colin Powell defended their new multiyear budget, proposed earlier this month, which calls for a 25% cut in military personnel by 1995, a 4% reduction in spending and even the elimination of many of the weapons that have proved to be so dramatically effective in the gulf...
...Defense Secretary appears to have a double standard when it comes to Pentagon policy on military families. Dick Cheney opposes a proposed law that would excuse one parent from the front lines in the event married soldiers with children are both called to serve. Cheney's position prompted the sponsor of the Military Orphans Prevention bill to remind him about his own history as a noncombatant. California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer points out that Cheney received a deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1966 because his wife Lynne was pregnant. "You . . . felt that your wife and soon-to-be-born child...
There is bravado everywhere. At the air bases, troops scrawl messages on the bombs: ALL ABOARD; GET OUT SADDAM; SAY CHEESE; HAVE A NICE DAY, with a smiley face, are written on a Maverick AGM-65 air-to-ground missile. When General Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney visited a Stealth fighter squadron, they inscribed a 2,000-lb., laser-guided bomb. TO SADDAM, WITH AFFECTION, wrote Cheney. YOU DIDN'T MOVE IT, SO NOW YOU LOSE IT, Powell wrote...
Most of all, as Cheney and Powell insisted to the point of monotony, a ground war would not be just a land battle but a combined land-air assault. They even talked of the ground campaign as a kind of supplement to a continued and intensified air war. The likely meaning: the aim of all the assaults would be to draw the Iraqis out from their fortifications and into a war of maneuver. Iraqis are not considered good at such fighting, and, more important, they would be doing it without vital air cover. Frontal attacks, where they occurred, would...
...Pentagon's answer so far has been blunt: the risk is one that military couples accepted when both husband and wife enlisted. "It would be a serious mistake, particularly while we are engaged in combat," says Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, "to reverse our long-standing policy that single parents and military couples are fully deployable and available for assignment anywhere in the world." To make sure that children are not simply abandoned, the Pentagon insists that parents appoint a guardian for them. Each service also operates a family-support network that includes counseling for custodians and the children. But there...