Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those forces are not available. The NATO members have only a limited ability to rearm, resupply or even communicate with one another. Says U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Robert Komer: "We still plan, configure, size, train and equip our forces nationally, as if each of us were going to fight the common enemy alone. This is a recipe for disaster." The Carter Administration has successfully pressed its allies to take some steps toward integrating NATO's forces. The President and Brown also won agreement from each NATO member to increase its annual defense spending by 3% in real terms...
...Several scenarios, all of them denied by Carter Administration sources, were suggested. One was that there would be an Iraq-Iran armistice at the end of October, after which the hostages would be released as part of a settlement; the way would then be clear for the U.S. to rearm Iran and to back Iranian diplomatic efforts to recapture territory seized by Iraq. Other rumors had it that the hostages, who reportedly had been scattered to safe houses around Iran, had been brought back to Tehran, and that plans for another secret rescue attempt had been scrapped...