Word: counterattacking
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...numerically superior armies were a very effective deterrent. But the Soviets continued to strengthen both their nuclear and their conventional forces. As a result, Europeans began to be concerned that the U.S. would not use its nuclear arms to defend the Continent, for fear of provoking a Soviet counterattack against American cities. Last week, after 18 months of research, 27 prominent U.S. and European defense specialists issued the 260-page Report of the European Security Study, which attempts to rethink NATO strategy in the light of the Soviet buildup.* Their conclusion: the alliance must increase both the quality...
...acquire more sophisticated ground-and air-launched conventional missile systems that could be targeted at Soviet bloc artillery. The alliance should also develop new surveillance technology that would greatly decrease the chance of a surprise attack. It should then be prepared to cripple enemy airpower by a massive counterattack on Warsaw Pact airbases. To check the enemy's second wave, Western forces would have to destroy logistic chokepoints such as bridges and ammunition depots. These goals would be supplemented by efforts to disrupt Warsaw Pact communications electronically and to defend NATO command centers from comparable enemy efforts...
...difficult to explain Reagan's policy on a basis of this logic. Take for example the issue of parity. 'It is wholly unnecessary for the United States to match the Soviet Union "missile for missile." The U.S. need only be capable of launching a counterattack to answer any Soviet attack; despite recent Soviet missile build-ups, it is entirely likely that we have that capability...
Nicaragua launches a rhetorical counterattack against...
...deter the Soviet Union from starting a war. The panel still accepts John Paul's view that deterrence is "morally acceptable" if it is part of a process leading to disarmament. But the committee clearly remains deeply distressed by the basic concept of deterrence: U.S. willingness to counterattack by launching nuclear missiles. Since such an assault would be bound to kill countless civilians near military targets, it might well conflict with the tenets of the venerable "just war" doctrine, which bars the indiscriminate or disproportionate killing of the innocent...