Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's hawkish statements about the Soviet Union. I certainly agree. I make a dispassionate assessment of my potential enemy, his objectives, his methods-and I don't believe the Soviet Union changes its objectives, it merely changes its methods. I may not know its motives, but I know the fantastic proportion of its gross national product that it puts into armaments. I know that being in a substantially landlocked country, with most of its supplies coming across land, it does not need such a big, big navy. It does not need so many submarines. Why then...
...sign that this transition might not be a smooth one came when Caspar W. Weinberger '38, soon after getting the job, fired the defense transition team and had a run-in with its head, William R. Van cleave, Reagan's hawkish chief defense adviser, who during the campaign had hoped for a high Pentagon post. By January 20 disgruntled aides were calling the defense transition a joke, a mess and "at the very least, quite a bit behind." For a period of time, aides said, literally no one was running the place: Weinberger was working with Reagan on the budget...
Second, would Reagan as President surround himself with a range of advisers who would temper his hawkish tendencies? The evidence is otherwise. His task forces drawing up foreign policy options include such hawkish advisers as William Van Cleave, a defense expert from the University of Southern California; Edward Luttwak, a leading theoretician of the right; and Richard Pipes, a Harvard history professor who is strongly anti-Soviet. Of late, he has been advised by more experienced and moderate voices as well, Henry Kissinger being a noteworthy example. But there is little doubt that Reagan would use U.S. military power abroad...
...King Khalid phoned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to express support for his battle against "the enemies of the Arab people," according to Iraqi reports. Jordan's King Hussein publicly applauded the attack. Kuwait's official news agency, which reflects the views of the ruling family, adopted a hawkish, pro-Iraq stand. To varying degrees, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman all jumped on the Iraqi bandwagon...
...Sadat and discuss existing differences. The Israelis have hinted that as a good-will gesture to Egypt and the U.S., they may release some Palestinian political prisoners and Prime Minister Menachem Begin may postpone the transfer of his office to East Jerusalem. Moreover, in a move supported even by hawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, the Israelis said that they would build only four more Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank-perhaps a sign that they were beginning to realize how much their settlements policy has contributed to Israel's isolation in the world...