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Even if these recommendations are feasible (and accepted), the Pentagon would still have to turn to the federal budget for more money. This would alarm those critics who have argued that defense expenditures are particularly inflationary.
Moscow has recently expanded its own arsenal of similar weapons. In the past year the Soviets have stationed in Eastern Europe an estimated 100 atomic-tipped, multiwarhead SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles and about 90 supersonic Backfire bombers. These could strike all Western European countries. Warned Henry Kissinger at...
Far along in development, the Pershing II could be based in Europe by the mid-1980s, and this prospect has already prompted denunciations from the Kremlin. Britain is expected to base some new Pershings on its territory, but West Germany last week indicated that it would do so only if...
Despite all the attention paid to strategic weapons, experts are nearly unanimous that the U.S. would be making a dangerous error if it continued concentrating as much as it has on the nuclear balance. As long ago as the mid-1960s, when targets in the U.S. first became vulnerable to...
Providing these needed vehicles would cost about $4 billion. An extra $600 million is needed annually by the Army just for enough bullets, artillery shells and mortar rounds for adequate training. So tight has money been that Army crews training in Europe have been allowed to fire only one TOW...