Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders will be jockeying amongst each other for position and in the next week or so, the Kremlin will have a new leader. The choices range from younger, more worldly candidates like Mikhail Gorbaschev to the more conservative Konstantin Chernenko and Grigory V. Romanov, but speculation also includes the hawkish Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov, who seems singlehandedly to have masterminded much of Russia's military buildup Further, Ustinov is one of the major power-brokers in the Politburo and is likely to influence heavily the choice of Andropov's successor. Although it would be wrong to overstate the United...
...more hawkish American and Europeans, No First Use offers the promise of increased conventional military strength, though critics of the proposal correctly point out that a conventional build-up will be extremely costly and unpopular. However, any increased reliance on conventional rather than nuclear weapons lessens the danger of Armageddon, and that should be worth the financial burden...
...trenches. Their indifference to digging in may have proved fatal, however, when a terrorist truck bomb blew apart Marine headquarters in Beirut on Oct. 23, killing 241 men. So concluded a highly critical report last week by the Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. The hawkish subcommittee, in a document approved by a vote of 9 to 3, charged the Marines with slack security and inadequate intelligence gathering, and accused the entire military chain of command of "very serious errors in judgment...
...first weeks of 1981, the newly inaugurated Reagan Administration was divided over whether to go ahead with either track of the NATO decision, deployment or negotiation. At a meeting in February, Richard Perle, the hawkish congressional staffer who would soon become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, called the NATO initiative that had been approved by President Jimmy Carter "a lousy decision if ever there...
Dovish and hawkish tendencies are clear, but the players sometimes behave atypically. For instance, only Clifford, a moderate, suggests a formal declaration of war; Schlesinger, usually a hardliner, says that the Soviets' stepped-up submarine activity is just for "theatrical purposes...