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Novak claims that the nation's Roman Catholic bishops "go too far when they get into specific judgments about military strategy and weapons systems such as the MX"; they are addressing matters outside their expertise. The same complaint was made when C & C condemned the use of obliteration bombing in World War II. Responding to critics, Niebuhr wrote in 1944: "Laymen are not capable of judging detailed problems of strategy, but general principles of strategy ought to remain under democratic scrutiny. The military mind is inclined to disregard moral and political factors in strategy. It is the business...
...tone somber, his message meant to be reassuring. "Our children should not grow up frightened," Ronald Reagan said. "They should not fear the future." But the President's approach to preventing nuclear war was of itself, and necessarily, a frightening thing: he urged deployment of 100 huge new MX intercontinental ballistics missiles in a Dense Pack cluster near Cheyenne...
Reagan's decision on the MX amounted to a broad statement of Administration nuclear-weapons policy. Said he: "I intend to search for peace along two parallel paths-deterrence and arms reductions." Reagan described U.S. military vulnerabilities in the most sweeping terms he has used to date, declaring: "In virtually every measure of military power the Soviet Union enjoys a decided advantage." There is no certain deterrence against a possible Soviet attack in such a state of imbalance, he suggested, and no incentive for the Kremlin to agree to arms reductions. The Reagan policy, in short: to rearm America...
Whether the Administration can realize its goal of a vastly strengthened military depends largely on Congress. The decision to go ahead with the $26 billion MX system is certain to provoke stormy debate among the lawmakers, who are sensitive to growing public uneasiness about nuclear arms and the Administration's increased defense spending. The outcome of the argument, which may begin this week, could profoundly affect arms negotiations between the two superpowers, the economies of both nations, perhaps even the chances of a nuclear...
High-priced military hardware--like the Pershing--makes Reagan Administration pulses pound with enthusiasm. The armsracing Californians who run the Pentagon have ushered in a host of shiny new weapons systems: the B-IB bomber, the MX missile, the M-1 tank, the F-18 fighter, and a whole military-industrial complex--full of other guns, planes, helicopters, ships and missiles. The Administration's emphasis on military technology has dramatically increased the Pentagon's already-bloated procurement budget. From 1981 to 1983, procurement spending rose nearly three times as fast as total defense spending. But because of incompetent management...