Word: willingly
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Catching up now is certain to be expensive. How much it will cost and how long it will take are urgent questions that the mounting debate on national defense will have to resolve. What exactly is the price of power?
In the coming months, the focus of the debate will be the fiscal 1981 defense budget, the final details of which are now being drafted in highly technical but often heated sessions behind closed doors
For demographic reasons, the manpower squeeze is going to get even tighter. Because of generally declining birth rates since 1960, a decreasing number of Americans will be reaching the minimum military enlistment age of 18 in the 1980s. The Pentagon will have an ever more difficult time getting enough recruits...
Even more critical perhaps is another question: Are Americans willing to pay the price? There is, of course, a widespread sense that the U.S. confronts a deadly threat from the Soviets, and that something must be done about it. But deciding what to do will test the nation's confidence and nerve as well as its ability to see issues in a long-term perspective. It will alsa require a challenging self-examination in which the U.S. weighs its role...
(5 of 12) weapons systems, ranging from the Trident nuclear-missile submarine to the Patriot antiaircraft missile. But much more will probably be required, and at a quicker pace.