Word: drawdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the U.S. has had an all-volunteer force since 1974, managing this drawdown is far more complicated than the demobilizations that followed World War II or Vietnam. "You don't just have a bunch of draftees who are eager to return to a world they know," says Major Bill Crews, an Army job-placement consultant. "In many cases, these career-military persons have never had another...
...possibility of starvation in the Soviet Union: "I keep seeing these pictures of Russians. I've never seen a picture of a skinny one yet." When he argues for rapid reduction of U.S. forces in Europe, he uses the figure of 350,000. He doesn't mention that a drawdown is well under way; according to the Pentagon, the number of troops still in Europe is only...
...panic buying as war began, gave the go- ahead to tap their emergency petroleum supplies. President Bush authorized the month-long sale of 1.1 million bbl. a day from the 585 million-bbl. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is stored in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. The drawdown will provide some 6% of the U.S.'s daily consumption of 17 million...
Preventing a Repeat. Whatever other trade-offs might be struck, the U.S. and its allies could press Saddam for concessions on his military capabilities: a drawdown of his troops, destruction of his chemical and biological weapons, inspection of his nuclear facilities to ensure that he is not building a bomb. Washington's position is that these measures could be enforced through a treaty. But, notes a senior British diplomat, "that is a hell of a difficult proposition." Such compromises would be extremely hard to win from Saddam through any means but a military defeat...