Word: vessey
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Administration planners also contend that a continued arms buildup now is essential to arms reduction later. General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asserts that the strengthening of American fighting capability has "forced the Soviets to come back to arms-control talks in Geneva," which are now scheduled to resume March 12. If those talks are to succeed, added Weinberger, the Soviets must be convinced that the U.S. is determined to keep adding to its muscle. Testifying last week to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Weinberger insisted that "reductions in the defense budget will prolong negotiations...
General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cited some indications of improved combat readiness...
...least some Pentagon officials apparently felt the same way when they issued a subsequent report suggesting that Army and Air Force preparedness had indeed decreased during the Reagan term. But Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John W. Vessey, who joined the Weinberger attack on the Congressional document, publicly disputed those internal reports, and the official military line is to second Weinberger's outrage...
...principal bar gaining feature. Weinberger succeeded in persuading the Joint Chiefs of Staff not to oppose him this time around. That task was made easier because General David Jones and his fellow hold overs from the Carter Administration had by now retired; the new Chiefs, headed by General John Vessey, were less experienced in arms control and less inclined to lock horns with the Pentagon civilians...
...along, Shultz neglected the advice he was getting about Lebanon from the Pentagon, which has never been happy about the Marine deployment or the New Jersey's heavy shelling, which Shultz had demanded. Furthermore, General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned for months at National Security Council meetings that the U.S. was relying too heavily on the precariously constituted Lebanese Army...