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Democratic legislators have an extra incentive to support a binge of defense spending: most of them voted against giving George Bush a green light to start the war. Now they may be even more anxious than the Republicans to push new weapons. Contends Lawrence Korb, an Under Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration: "The Democrats on Capitol Hill are in shell shock. To stand up against the Patriot now would be unpatriotic...
Despite these strains, the Pentagon asserts that the U.S. and its NATO allies could fight the Soviets in Europe if necessary and at the same time handle a challenge elsewhere. Others are not so sure. "The gulf deployment," says Lawrence Korb, a Brookings Institution military expert and former Defense Department expert on manpower, "puts to rest that idea." Says Washington defense analyst Steven Canby: "Let us pray that we don't face any new threat elsewhere...
Webb is one of a small but growing number of critics who say the only way to ensure fairness is to reinstate the draft, preferably without exemptions for college students. "Unless you have universal national service or universal military service, you will always have this problem," says Lawrence Korb, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower in the Reagan Administration. But Congress and the President are in no mood to deal with the political uproar that would surely follow any move in that direction. The Defense Department said last week it has no contingency plans to revive the draft...
...agreed upon by the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. But since the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act of 1986, the Chairman has become superior to the individual service chiefs, with his own staff of 1,600 and enhanced status and authority. "Goldwater-Nichols," says Lawrence Korb, director of public-policy education at the Brookings Institution, "changed the Pentagon like nothing else in recent memory...
...develop. The Pentagon budget will still be cut, but perhaps by as little as $10 billion, obliterating any chance that a substantial peace dividend will help relieve pressure on the government deficit. "Every politician will cite the gulf crisis as a justification for his favorite weapon," says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon official now at the Brookings Institution in Washington. For example, Senator Robert Dole has already argued that Iraq's move proves the need for the Stealth bomber, a plane less useful in the gulf than the A-10 tank killer that Air Force pilots disdain because it cannot...