Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon planners grudgingly accept the fact that each January congressional liberals routinely lop $3.5 billion or so off their requested budget, and the liberals regularly grumble that the military goes on buying weapons as rapidly as it had planned anyway. This year, however, the Defense Department has run up against a far more merciless budget slicer that is really forcing cutbacks in weapons procurement: the savage bite of inflation...
Huge Costs. The Pentagon, of course, may have brought some of the problem on itself by its past willingness to accept price increases that contractors claimed were forced by huge cost overruns and bail out firms that could not deliver weapons at the previously established price. J. Ronald Fox, former Assistant Secretary of the Army, points out that "there are always pressures for increasing costs in an industry where there is little price competition...
Generally, the agreement seems to pose no new strategic danger for either side. Its merit is that it seeks to place some kind of cap on nuclear development-even though that cap does not fit very tightly. Observes Edward Luttwak, a Pentagon strategist: "The Air Force and the Navy can keep building whatever they want." So, of course, can the Soviet forces. Indeed, as each side maneuvers for the strongest possible position within the new arms limits, pressures toward a multibillion-dollar race to improve weapons may prove irresistible. By 1985, when the projected pact would...
...employers have been hanging on to machinists, welders, engineers, chemists, metallurgists and others with hard-to-come-by skills that they will need when business picks up again. But unskilled youths find job prospects so poor that they are joining the Army in greater numbers than expected, quieting the Pentagon's fears of last year that the ranks could not be filled once the draft ended. Recruitment rose 3,100 over forecasts during the fall, and would-be enlistees are flocking in so fast that the Army is raising its acceptance standards...
...effort influenced U.S. policy towards Chile. ITT did have incredibly intimate contact with the White House, State Department, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA. It is true that all of the proposals made by ITT in 1970 to topple Allende were eventually implemented by either the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury, or the CIA. It is also true that the CIA had been involved in Chilean politics since 1964 and possibly earlier. Chile's experience demonstrates that every tie between the U.S. and another country is a potential political lever that can be manipulated to suit U.S. purposes. Whether...