Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weinberger's hawkish statements on foreign policy issues have often been poorly planned and counterproductive. In Bonn last April, Weinberger denigrated the benefits of detente and called for a buildup of NATO's conventional and nuclear forces; Haig had to reassure allies that the U.S. was still committed to pursuing arms control negotiations with the Soviets as well as upgrading the Western deterrent. Haig also had to rein in Weinberger when he announced, without consulting NATO leaders, that the Administration was planning to produce neutron warheads for eventual deployment in Europe. Haig promised the allies there would...
...fear that SALT II would leave the U.S. vulnerable to a surprise Soviet attack led him to become the Carter Administration's most visible, tireless and technically well-informed opponent in the debate over Senate ratification of the treaty. Yet while Nitze's reputation is hawkish, he has never called for a return to military superiority over the Soviet Union. "Perhaps brilliant is not the right word to describe his mind," says a veteran diplomat who has known him for years. "But it is very precise and disciplined...
...delegation, headed by Paul Nitze, 74, an experienced and hawkish arms negotiator, is going to Geneva with different arithmetic. According to U.S. calculations, which include nukes carried by Soviet-based aircraft, Moscow currently has not parity but a 6-to-1 advantage in medium-range weapons. Thus, Nitze will press vigorously for the Reagan proposal. Mindful of the Soviet Union's outright, not to say contemptuous, rejection of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 proposal for deep cuts in strategic arms, the Administration is determined to avoid what it considers to have been Carter's principal error. Unlike...
...most tangible result of the talks was a decision to formalize and strengthen the strategic alliance of the U.S. and Israel against any Soviet military moves in the Middle East. Top advisers to both Reagan and Begin, including hawkish Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, began to work out the details of the new cooperation after the summit meeting ended. Any agreement will probably include the pre-positioning of medical supplies in Israel for U.S. forces, making any emergency move easier; joint U.S.-Israeli naval exercises; and increased access by Israel to U.S. military intelligence. Also under consideration was the possible...
Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History. A specialist in pre-revolutionary Russia, Pipes now is the National Security Council's chief Soviet expert. Hawkish on defense issues, Pipes is a bitter enemy of the Soviets, whom he considers dangerous expansionists and implacable foes of the United States. Pipes got himself into hot water last March when he told an interviewer that detente was dead and that a war between the superpowers was inevitable if the Soviet Union didn't peacefully change its system. The White House and State Department quickly slapped his wrists, and there hasn't been...