Word: conflict
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...value the alliance, with all its failings, as the ultimate guardian of Western freedom must seek urgently to end political disputes over East-West relations and North-South policy, especially Western conduct in the flash points of conflict in the Third World. The tendency to grandstand before domestic audiences, the growing self-righteousness, will in time make a mockery of the key assumption of the Atlantic Alliance: that we share a common approach to security. Defense requires after all some agreed political purpose in the name of which it is conducted. The Atlantic Alliance must urgently develop a grand strategy...
...panoply of weapons. For example, there are at least five kinds of battle tanks within NATO, different types of artillery and different standards for calculating the rate of consuming ammunition. In a major conflict it would be nearly impossible to keep this hodgepodge offerees supplied...
Such a division of responsibilities would also enable our military establishment to shift some of its intellectual energies and scientific research from a hypothetical esoteric war in an area where we have major allies to the defense of regions where conflict is much more likely. In such regions our allies are less prone to see their interests immediately engaged, and the countries being threatened are in a worse position to assist in the defense effort...
...recently suffered. With President Amin Gemayel's government on the brink of collapse, the religious leaders expressed fear that Christians would once again repair to their isolated enclaves and make national reconciliation even more difficult. Said former Prime Minister Amin Hafez, a Muslim: "After nine years of continuous conflict between the two sides, there are young Christian men who have never seen a Muslim...
Across the Atlantic, the most prominent American policy issues are the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). American-Soviet nuclear arms negotiations, and the Middle East conflict. These issues appear to have tipped the continental balance against Reagan. Dillion Professor of International Affairs Raymond Vernon Claims he has "never seen such a separation from the United States culture and economy, such discontentment over foreign policy decisions of the U.S. government in all the 35 years I've been following European political thought," although he qualifies that this view is based on limited conversations...