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...corps's problem is to find a mission that would justify its continued existence. In what defense specialist Edward Luttwak calls a "geopolitical meltdown," the collapse of the Warsaw Pact has forced the Pentagon to reassess what sorts of war the U.S. may have to fight in the future. Rather than a huge tank-and-artillery Armageddon on the central front of Europe, the most likely outbreaks will be "low-intensity conflicts" such as the American invasions of Grenada and Panama. Although these are precisely the sort of assignment for which the Marines were created, they played no central role...
...newspapers reported that Warsaw Pact troops had entered Czechoslovakia and were "fulfilling their international duty." The invasion had begun. The hopes inspired by the Prague Spring collapsed. And "real socialism" displayed its true colors, its stagnation, its inability to tolerate pluralistic or democratic tendencies, not just in the Soviet Union but even in neighboring countries. The abolition of censorship and free elections were regarded as too risky and contagious...
Bush recognizes that the rapid pace of events will later lead to even deeper troop cuts on both sides. Soviet forces are not capable of launching a surprise invasion of Western Europe now that their allies in the Warsaw Pact have declared independence and the U.S.S.R.'s military effectiveness has disintegrated. The Soviet army is significantly weakened by ethnic strife and insubordination in the ranks. (At the NATO meeting in Brussels last week, a senior defense expert disclosed that the Soviet army mobilized an entire division in its Moscow barracks last February as a signal to the Kremlin against further...
Since joining TIME in 1978, Hornik, who holds a master's degree in Russian studies from George Washington University, has spent much of his time exploring communist economics. He was our man in Warsaw from 1981 to 1983, when the drive for reform was flagging, and in Beijing from 1985 to 1987. "It has been the theme of my career," says Hornik, "that I go to these places where they try to reform but never quite make...
...Scale back the huge $240 million buy of C-17 transport planes, designed for rapid reinforcement in Europe, from 210 to 120. The longer warning time required for a Warsaw Pact attack, Cheney said, will permit more U.S. resupply by ship. Cheney also argued that the big C-17 can land on the shorter runways of Third World airports. But the C-17, though arguably necessary against the Warsaw Pact, is too much airplane for Third World tasks, and any successor should be more like the reliable C-141s still flying...