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...needed domestic programs in both countries. Moreover, Nixon insisted during the campaign that the U.S. faces a "security gap" and must not permit the Soviets to achieve anything approaching nuclear parity. In the Brookings report, Carl Kaysen, director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, sharply challenges that view, underscoring "the futility of a quest for security" through increasing military strength. Kaysen argues that the theory of "deterrence-plus" -the maintenance of sufficient strength to absorb a Soviet first strike and still be able to devastate the attackers, with a margin of safety added-is passe. A secure second...
...Reischauer also notes that in the rest of Asia a precipitate U.S. pullout from Viet Nam, or a thinly veiled sellout, could well ensure eventual Chinese domination of the whole region. He looks instead for "a continuing, even if less conspicuous" U.S. role in Asia after Viet Nam-a view that Nixon may not share...
...States is no longer in a position to operate programs globally; it has to encourage them. It can no longer impose its preferred solution; it must seek to evoke it. We are a superpower physically, but our designs can be meaningful only if they generate willing cooperation." And, in view of the present mood of the U.S., willing cooperation in new foreign-policy ventures will have to begin at home...
...transition. His attention focused on Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, whom the President-elect would like to persuade to stay on in his arduous job. Failing that, Nixon may turn to Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 56, whose experience on the Senate Armed Services Committee and hard-line views on U.S. defense policy would equip him well, in Nixon's view, to take over at the Pentagon. Democratic regulars have taken to referring to such possible apostates as "Uncle Toms...
...troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development time and intelligence estimates. Under normal circumstances, it would take eight to ten years to develop and deploy AMSA from the date the decision to go ahead was made. But national intelligence estimates can project potential enemy defensive capabilities only two to five years...