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...Kalashnikov is the most esteemed and bestselling assault rifle in the world today, partly because it uses standardized ammunition available almost anywhere. The U.S. Army's M-16 is far less attractive on international arms markets; it has never lived down a much deserved reputation, earned in Viet Nam, for jamming frequently...
...ship fixation: it proposes to take two, and eventually four, World War II battleships out of mothballs and fit them as floating missile platforms. That will be neither quick nor cheap. Recommissioning the New Jersey, which has been docked at Bremerton, Wash., since the end of the Viet Nam War, would cost $326 million, but that would be just to get it afloat. Equipping it to launch 100 missiles would raise the total cost to $1 billion, according to Norman Polmar, compiler of the authoritative guide The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. Polmar argues that "cruise missiles...
...only major segment of American society in which blacks have on the average more education than whites). But many senior officers dread the idea. They fear that the draft would rekindle the intense hostility toward the military that plagued the armed forces for years during and after Viet Nam. Nonetheless, a growing number of officers and, most reluctantly, Congressmen believe that a draft may be unavoidable...
These frightening deficiencies are the result of a decade of neglect, following the winding down of the debilitating U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Increases in military spending fell below the rate of inflation from 1969 through '77, and nosed upward in real terms only slightly thereafter. This erosion of the nation's ability to defend itself was, in a way, a bipartisan policy that began with Richard Nixon, who boasted that he was the first President in 20 years to devote a greater share of the national budget to social programs than to defense. Gerald Ford proposed some modest increases...
...during the 1970s. The Military Air Transport Command had all it could do last fall to fly a mere 1,400 soldiers to Egypt for a training exercise, Operation Bright Star. The number of cargo ships fell by 297, nearly half the fleet, in the past decade. After the Viet Nam War wound down, the Navy retired a whole generation of World War II-vintage cargo vessels and concentrated its limited funds on building fighting ships. The U.S. has enough amphibious craft to enable a Marine assault group of about...