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...loss of trained manpower, said Watkins, "I consider it to be the most serious personnel readiness situation that I have seen in over 31 years in the Navy." The Joint Chiefs are particularly worried about the shortages now that Carter has declared it is U.S. policy to protect the Persian Gulf from Soviet meddling. There is a possibly perilous gap between intention and capability about which Brown was questioned during his first stop of the day, at the Army's Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss in El Paso...
...billion, for spare parts for the Air Force; the shipment of enough equipment to Europe to enable the U.S. to dispatch four divisions to the Continent within two weeks, in contrast with only one division in 1976; by the improved ability of the U.S. to move forces to the Persian Gulf by placing seven supply ships in the Indian Ocean and by negotiating the right to use ports and airfields in the region in an emergency. Brown properly gave credit to the Ford and Nixon Administrations for initiating many of these efforts. After the speech he told TIME...
Even before the outbreak of the Persian Gulf crisis, the U.S. was widely perceived, both at home and abroad, to be losing its ability to anticipate and influence events that jeopardize Western interests and world peace. For the U.S. to find itself on the sidelines of the current trouble is particularly frustrating and ominous. This marks the first time in the long and variegated history of modern Middle Eastern warfare that the U.S. has neither diplomatic relations with, nor political leverage on, either of the combatants. Commented Saudi Arabia's Foreign Affairs Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal: "The almost...
...Carter foreign policy advisers and their would-be successors in the Reagan camp are going to have to rethink their plans for protecting the security of the Persian Gulf. Both Carter and Reagan have elaborate strategies for deterring direct Soviet military intervention. But as recent weeks have shown, the more immediate threat is indigenous turmoil. Neither presidential candidate-nor anyone else, for that matter-has an answer to that problem or to the encroachment of Soviet diplomacy, such as the friendship treaty with Syria that Presidents Leonid Brezhnev and Hafez Assad signed last week...
Reagan and Anderson supporters accused Carter of failing, despite two gluts on the oil market in four years, to establish adequate emergency fuel reserves in case of a crisis in the Persian Gulf. Stuart Eizenstat, President Carter's chief domestic advisor, said the U.S. is "as ready as it's ever been" for a crisis, and mentioned possible gas rationing or military response as alternatives...