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...following year, convinced that Kennedy would launch yet another invasion of Cuba, Khrushchev opted to deploy on Cuban soil medium- and intermediate- range Soviet missiles capable of reaching American targets. Although approving the way the White House dealt with the confrontation, Beschloss blames Kennedy for failing to make U.S. goals clear. If he had better articulated his country's interests, Beschloss insists, "it is doubtful that Khrushchev would have felt compelled to take his giant risk on Cuba." Kennedy had second thoughts as well. "Last month I should have said . . . that we don't care" about the missile deployment...
...NATO defense ministers, meeting last week in Brussels, approved a drastic overhaul of the alliance's military structure. They will deploy only about half as many troops as the 1.5 million now stationed in Central Europe; the U.S. specifically will be able to bring home at least half, and possibly as many as two-thirds, of the 320,000 people it keeps on guard on the Continent. Essentially, NATO is giving up its old "forward defense" strategy of massing forces in Germany and is reorganizing its central region into three main groups...
...Therefore, if individuals are ordered to deploy...and they choose to dishonor those orders, we consider it a very serious offense," he said...
Presidents, however, have taken significant liberties with their interpretation of when consultation is not "possible"--this contingency has extended to cover most situations in which presidents want to deploy troops quickly without the hassle of meeting with Congressional leaders...
Serious doubts arise from the length of time it took the U.S. to deploy the 525,000-strong forces of Operation Desert Storm. In the event of a Soviet offensive in Europe, Pentagon strategy called for reinforcing NATO with six armored and infantry divisions airlifted or shipped from the U.S. in only 10 days, but it has taken nearly six months to complete the buildup in the gulf. That buildup has stripped American bases in the U.S. and overseas of troops and war machines. More than 70,000 U.S. Army soldiers and 40,000 tanks, artillery pieces and other equipment...