Word: rearmaments
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...concern for disarmament. In December 1979, when the NATO governments agreed to the deployment of the 108 Pershing II missiles and 464 cruise missiles, they vowed to pursue arms reduction negotiations with the Soviets. This year, the Reagan administration seemed to have contradicted the European plan by emphasizing rearmament rather than disarmament. Statements by administration officials on the possibility of "limited" nuclear wars in Europe horrified NATO leaders, who questioned the deployment of more American missiles on their soil while the U.S. had ostensibly abandoned detented. The "zero-option" provided welcome relief to these leaders by identifying the Americans...
...workers who supported Reagan probably don't care that he offered little but a far-away trickle-down effect to workers without powerful unions behind them; that Reagan opposed any advance of the American trade union movement; or that the proposed rearmament of America would be at the expense of the CETA and Social Security payments. So, it is up to us to wonder exactly what if any solidarity exists among American working people in the United States. Although union leaders defend the air traffic controllers strike officially, they must have little sympathy for PATCO because the growing trend...
Convincing the nation that an ultraexpensive rearmament program is necessary and deciding on its approximate size were the opening, and easiest, steps in getting the buildup going. Now comes the far more difficult job of making hard choices about exactly what that mountain of money should be used to buy?and what ought to be bought first...
Defense Production. The defense industry's shortcomings could turn the whole rearmament program into a paper tiger. Defense contractors can produce weapons even at today's slow pace only with ruinous cost overruns. The contractors blame the military for constantly revising plans; the Pentagon blames the contractors for slovenliness and inefficiency. Meanwhile, production lead times stretch out: the order-to-delivery time for Pratt & Whitney's F-100 aircraft engine, for example, has lengthened from 19 to 38 months in the past two years. Experts warn that the industry does not have the capacity to build arms at the pace...
...used with monotonous regularity in the Pentagon and Congress to describe the present consensus for military spending is "fragile." Congress and the nation will strongly support increased military outlays?if the Administration sets clear priorities for a sustained build up. But that support will be quickly lost if the rearmament program is perceived as nothing more than a crash attempt to solve America's serious national defense problems by merely throwing money at them...