Word: pentagonal
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...Vietnam -- that the MIA issue is a stumbling block, yes, but an issue, no. ''Hanoi is bending over backward looking for old bones.'' The trouble is, according to the herd of entrepreneurs moving cross the country like a solid wind, Bill Clinton has played out his string with the Pentagon, what with all the base closings and the gay controversy. So what if there are Americans unaccounted for? There are 300,000 Vietnamese missing. Let's get on with commerce. We're talking 69 million consumers here. And besides, said my companion Dave, who should know, just...
...some observers suspected that Bush, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, had more personal motives in publicizing the directive. ''If you said that politics played an important role in this announcement,'' said a military official, ''you wouldn't find a lot of people objecting at the Pentagon...
...give up their largest missiles, they would probably demand that the U.S. give up the MX and the Trident II as well. That would be difficult to accept. There are widespread questions about how to base the MX and about Congress's willingness to fund it fully. But the Pentagon sees the Trident II as a crucial component of the U.S. arsenal for the 1990s because, like its predecessors, its submarine basing makes it invulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack (assuming, of course, that the Soviets do not achieve a breakthrough in antisubmarine warfare). But the stickiest and most...
...understand the rationale for it.'' The rationale, according to those who advocate a system to protect silos, is that they are now vulnerable to a pre-emptive attack by the Soviets' vast arsenal of fast, accurate warheads. At the conference, Walter Slocombe, who during the Carter Administration held a Pentagon post comparable to the one now occupied by Perle, agreed that ''in principle'' defending silos is ''not a bad idea.'' But, he argued, there are cheaper and more reliable ways to defend the U.S. capability to retaliate. Among those suggested at the conference: hardening missile silos and developing a system...
...this, Reed has promised, will not be the typical, carefully stage-managed view that visiting dignitaries usually get in Iraq and Afghanistan; nor will it merely echo the kind of briefings that lawmakers can get back in Washington from top Pentagon officials and commanders. The goal, he told MSNBC, is "to get down to the brigade combat teams. It's to get out and talk to troops. It's to get out and talk to the advisers, the embedded special forces and SEALs. That's what's critical, I think, and it's what we hope to accomplish...