Word: hawkishness
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...Soviet motive for these threatening deployments is to give military weight to Moscow's territorial claim over the disputed islands. The Kremlin may have made its point, but it has also aroused Japanese ire and permitted Japanese generals and hawkish politicians to talk more openly about increased defense spending. Japanese public opinion still fears the shadow of the country's militaristic past, and the government is quite sensitive to the lingering resentment among East Asian countries that were occupied by Japan in World War II. But, as one Japanese official puts it, "advocacy of a more active defense...
...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...