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...Reagan Administration's willingness to send men and matériel around the world is hardly surprising. It is consistent with the President's starkly anti-Communist world view. And while his policy pronouncements sometimes seem awkward or belligerent, the President's deployments have not been reckless. Direct confrontation with the Soviets has been avoided, and U.S. casualties (six killed in Lebanon, one in El Salvador) have been...
...emotional about, and quality control is one of them," he said. "The Department of Defense could save billions if we could have better quality assurance." The failure of contractors to deliver on such assurances, Wickham said, has plagued everything from weapons systems to the most mundane matériel. The electronic weaponry of the Patriot ground-to-air missile was so failure-prone that the Army has decided to stop testing it for now. Until recently the Copperhead guided artillery projectile was beset with targeting problems. Even fatigue uniforms are not immune: one shipment shrank on being laundered...
Unfortunately, Winston Churchill, the most persuasive of the Allied leaders, loved feint and diversion. "Periphery pecking," the Americans called it, a strategy they felt wasted lives, time and matériel even as Germany rushed ahead with new weapons, including a possible atomic bomb. Churchill got his way in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, but Wedemeyer's heartland strategy was what focused Allied might in the decisive battle. To this day Wedemeyer believes that the Allies squandered a splendid opportunity by not invading in 1943. Had they occupied Europe and stopped the Soviets at their border, he says...
Those circumstances included growing U.S. matériel support for Britain. Alexander Haig had promised that support when the U.S. abandoned a month-long mediating effort and swung behind Britain, on the principle that unprovoked Argentine aggression could not be condoned. In the early 3 stages of the Falklands crisis, Washington's support for London consisted largely of providing some intelligence information and fuel supplies for the British armada at Ascension Island, the closest British staging area to the Falklands. That help has now been extended to cover a broad range of war goods, such as Sidewinder missiles, which the British...
...from the Soviet Union, East Germany and North Korea. Israel, which regards Iraq as its most implacable enemy among the Muslim states, has sold Iran Israeli-made weapons such as sea-to-sea and air-to-air missiles, as well as some parts for the U.S.-made matériel the Ayatullah's regime inherited when Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was deposed in 1979. Still, most of the $1 billion in weaponry that Iran has bought has come from an international network of arms dealers or directly from Western European sources...