Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposition to draft registration is based on practical concerns. We oppose the program because it is--to borrow a line from one of Reagan's three-by-five cards--an empty symbol. It will not deter the Russians, or anyone else, from doing anything, and it only helps buttress the assumption that the answer to geopolitical friction is military action. Moreover, registration does nothing to improve the Pentagon's legitimate manpower deficiency in the existing reserve forces; and those are the divisions which would respond initially to a crisis. In addition, registration has already made federal criminals...
...Members of the military, police, fire and civil defense services, as well as thousands of workers newly "militarized" to deter them from striking, will be subject to penalties, including death, applied to soldiers on active service in time of war. The armed forces are authorized to use "coercion to restore calm, law-and-order...
...paying attention to his national backyard. The interview, conducted by two accommodating TV executives, was an attempt to cast a cloak of presidential conciliation broad enough to reassure his impatient supporters and appease his angry detractors. But it confirmed that neither worsening economic news nor mounting political pressure would deter the new President from fulfilling the sweeping promises made during his campaign...
...tactical weapons against troops in the field without its bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button." Haig set off a demonstration bombshell of his own by announcing that NATO had a contingency plan to fire a warning nuclear "shot across the bow," if needed, to deter a Soviet conventional attack in Europe; Weinberger said he knew of no such policy...
...much the Europeans' responsibility as the U.S.'s-is an all-out, sustained buildup in conventional forces. The Western democracies will probably never be able to match the Soviet bloc in conscripted military, but by substantially narrowing the gap, NATO might some day be able to deter the armored legions of the Warsaw Pact without having to rely quite so much on the threat of using the nuclear equalizer. With the viability of nuclear deterrence against nonnuclear aggression already in doubt, the less that concept is belabored, the better...