Word: combatancy
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Schlesinger says that the Pentagon "cannot guarantee the success of a volunteer Army" but will make every effort to make it work. As an inducement to volunteers, Congress has approved bonuses?$2,500 for a high school graduate enlisting for four years in a combat arm, $15,000 to a doctor who signs up?and has dramatically raised military pay. It now costs taxpayers $12,448 a year to maintain each person in uniform, compared with $3,443 in 1950. In all, the volunteer force has added $3.1 billion a year to the Pentagon budget. Manpower now accounts...
Until the mid-1950s, Russia maintained only a coastal-defense fleet. Since then, it has rapidly expanded its fleet, outbuilding the U.S. in naval vessels by a ratio of 8 to 1, and the Russian fleet of 221 major surface combat ships today sails all oceans of the world. For the most part, Russian vessels are younger than American ships (an average of about eight years v. about 18 years), and the Soviet guided-missile cruisers of the Kresta
Steady Improvements. Meanwhile, the U.S. has trimmed its active fleet to 174 major surface combat ships. Nonetheless, Polmar believes that the U.S. Navy still leads the Soviets in a number oif critical areas. Among them: carrier aviation (1,120 fighters and bombers aboard 14 attack carriers), nuclear-propelled surface ships and the ability to refuel and resupply ships at sea. This last capability permits the U.S. to keep a ship at sea for a longer period of time than the Russians, though Polmar expects the Soviets to catch up within a year...
...hold an even greater superiority in tactical aircraft (4,300 v. 1,890) and in tanks (about 19,000 v. 6,500). Despite the antitank missiles the Arabs and Israelis used so effectively against each other last year, military planners still consider the tank the key weapon in ground combat. The Soviets have both a new medium tank (the T-62) and a new light tank in production and are testing still another new medium tank. Nonetheless, as Schlesinger points out, the U.S. and its 13 NATO allies have "other
That possibility is particularly worrisome, since the Administration's long-range strategy to combat rising food prices is to do everything possible to encourage another record harvest in 1974. A preliminary survey compiled last week by the Agriculture Department showed that farmers do indeed plan to grow more than ever this year. Provided that the weather and other imponderables cooperate, they should harvest some 2 billion bu. of wheat, an increase of 300 million bu. over last year's yield. The jump in corn planting is up 10%, to more than 77 million acres. In fact, the profits...