Word: politico
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...Rowny, an opponent of SALT II who heads the U.S. delegation for arms control negotiations; Richard Perle, a longtime aide to Senator Henry Jackson, now a high official in the Pentagon; Richard Burt, a strategic affairs expert and former defense correspondent for the New York Times, now director of politico-military affairs in the State Department...
Contingency scenarios for US military deployment tend to underestimates troop requirements, estimates of casualty rates, and the time and geographic scope of required engagement. Politico-military analysts downplay the potential for regionalization of armed conflict in the isthmus. In particular they underestimate the implications of the Nicaraguan and Cuban commitment to provide military support to Salvadorean guerilla forces in the event of continued escalation of US involvement. No serious consideration appears to have been given to global security implications of an escalated regional conflict involving US, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and other participants...
...consider myself a sleazy politico," she says. "There's no spoils system. I won't get anything out of this except for experience. I'm doing it because Carter is the best...
...announcing the Trident deal to the House of Commons, Defense Secretary Francis Pym explained the government's politico-military rationale. "We need to convince Soviet leaders," he said, "that even if they thought at some critical point, as a conflict developed, that the U.S. would hold back, the British force could still inflict a blow so destructive that the penalty for aggression would have proved too high." Britain will be nearly tripling its nuclear striking power, from 192 war heads mounted on 2,880-mile-range Polaris missiles bought from the U.S. 17 years ago, to 512 independently targetable...
Sitting in his office overlooking an expansive parking lot at Northeastern University, Fowler explains his interest in John Hancock. In the man who, for most, means life insurance. the skyscraper, or the hazy and not-too-interesting personage who endorsed the Constitution, Fowler sees a paradoxical politico. The dichotomous Hancock, generally acknowledged in his day as Boston's wealthiest citizen, became its most outspoken revolutionary. Fowler's examination demythifies...