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...Tower report, which was released last Thursday, listed Kennedy School Lecturer Robert J. Murray as a consultant to the President's Special Review Board and cited the help of Graham T. Allison '62, the dean of the Kennedy School, and Lecturer Gregory F. Treverton in formulating the case studies...
Referring to Harvard faculty participation on the Special Review Board, Kennedy said that "[Allison and Treverton] made use of their educated sense on national security issues. Some of those things are obviously germane to the discussion at hand...
Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy Gregory H. Treverton, the other respondent, said that although he is uneasy with support for the Contras, the existence of the group has deterred the Sandinista government from aiding revolutionaries in neighboring countries...
...lacks any systematic comparison with U.S. or allied forces. The Soviets, for example, have nothing in their naval arsenal to match the U.S. fleet of 13 aircraft carriers. While NATO is outflanked by Soviet tanks, the allies have beefed up their defenses with thousands of antitank missiles. Nevertheless, Gregory Treverton, assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, complimented the report for its exhaustive detail and declared that it "does not overemphasize Soviet power." The Government Printing Office has already run off 36,000 booklets (at a cost of $40,000, with copies available to the public...
...Says a leading British official: "The reason for NATO modernizing its nuclear forces is that we have to fill a position between the tactical Lance missile [a short-range mobile missile] and the big bang. We cannot make counterthreats credible without theater nuclear weapons." Notes American Defense Analyst Gregory Treverton of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "It is important to remember that deterrence is a combination of will and weaponry. Weapons do make a difference. NATO has to become more confident at a lower level of deterrence rather than at a higher level...