Word: deploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not enhance our military position against the Soviet's but it will needlessly and unproductively increase tensions with them. If Congress decides to revive the draft, we will have a bloated army, one that this nation's historically aching-for-action military establishment might be dangerously tempted to deploy...
...Soviet-American relationship necessarily meant defusing the Soviet-American rivalry, and just the opposite has happened. The Soviets were angry over the human rights policy, rapid Sino-American rapprochement, the hawkish tone of the Senate SALT debate, the go-ahead for the MX missile, and the decision to deploy new weapons in Europe. Partly because of that anger and partly because of the imperatives of their own national security, the Kremlin rebuffed U.S. attempts at "persuasion." It was as though the old men in the Politburo had decided to teach Carter a lesson in what happens when moralism is pitted...
Warns Christopher Foss, British editor of the authoritative Jane's Armour and Artillery 1979-1980: "The armor gap is so great that the West is falling hopelessly behind in getting vehicles into the field." By 1987, the U.S. Army hopes to deploy 7,000 XM1 tanks to counter the threat of the 25,000 T-72s and tens of thousands of other armored vehicles the Soviets will have by that year. But the Pentagon's goals are at the mercy of congressional cutbacks and increased production costs. Meanwhile, the Soviets are developing a brand-new tank...
...negotiating additional provisions that would apply the brakes to the Soviet juggernaut. The Administration has inserted into the Vladivostok framework a new ceiling for MiRVed ICBMS and a freeze on the MIRVing of various types of ICBMS. Before the treaty expires in 1985, the Soviets would be permitted to deploy a maximum of 820 MiRVed ICBMS. That is about 100 more than they have now and therefore hardly cause for euphoria. But while it is not disarmament, it is arms control, since in the absence of that ceiling the Soviets would probably deploy more than 900 MiRVed ICBMS...
...Soviet officials and American Kremlinologists alike, was that the Kremlin did not want to scuttle SALT during the final months of the negotiations. Since then, however, the U.S. has coupled SALT with its considerable increase in defense spending, its go-ahead for the MX, and the NATO decision to deploy a new generation of U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe. If the Kremlin now has truly decided SALT is not worth saving, the superpowers could be moving into a protracted period of unfettered military competition...