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These frightening deficiencies are the result of a decade of neglect, following the winding down of the debilitating U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Increases in military spending fell below the rate of inflation from 1969 through '77, and nosed upward in real terms only slightly thereafter. This erosion of the...
Weinberger's predecessors tended to concentrate power in the Office of the Secretary, involving themselves in decisions at every level and running the Pentagon as if it were a small business. Like Reagan in the White House, Weinberger prefers to delegate, acting as chief executive of a big, diversified conglomerate...
Thus the leaders will have to devote much time simply to getting acquainted. Mitterrand is particularly eager to arrange a private tête-à-tête with Reagan, essentially to feel out whether a French Socialist can find some common ground with an American conservative. The leaders will...
Concluded he: "Good luck to them. Good luck to you." For now at least, Pepper shakes off any notions of retiring to devote his full energies to his new vocation. Says he: "I contemplated retiring, and I sort of tentatively fixed a date-the year 2000."
One veteran who is trying to reconcile those who served and those who did not is James Webb. A much decorated, twice-wounded Annapolis graduate who led a company of Marines in Viet Nam, Webb recently resigned as minority counsel to the House Veterans' Affairs Committee to devote full time...