Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 10929: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979 Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - Government publications |
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... costs ) increased in real terms by about 36 percent between 1967 and 1977. Estimates indicate that as late as 1968 , U.S. ... cost the United States to replicate the Soviet defense effort ) expressed as a ratio of U.S. baseline defense ...
... costs ) increased in real terms by about 36 percent between 1967 and 1977. Estimates indicate that as late as 1968 , U.S. ... cost the United States to replicate the Soviet defense effort ) expressed as a ratio of U.S. baseline defense ...
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... costs , surviva- bility , and geographic location of a mobile version . I believe we will probably be able to reach the point of settling the basing concept or concepts in a way or ways acceptable from cost , strategic employment , and ...
... costs , surviva- bility , and geographic location of a mobile version . I believe we will probably be able to reach the point of settling the basing concept or concepts in a way or ways acceptable from cost , strategic employment , and ...
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... cost of buying additional F - 15s for the Aerospace Defense Command ( ADCOM ) . Should projected enhancement in Soviet long - range bomber capabilities and the development of a Soviet cruise missile materialize , we may later wish to ...
... cost of buying additional F - 15s for the Aerospace Defense Command ( ADCOM ) . Should projected enhancement in Soviet long - range bomber capabilities and the development of a Soviet cruise missile materialize , we may later wish to ...
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... cost of $ 11 million in FY 1979. Tech- nical feasibility testing will be completed by the end of 1980 , after which time we will decide if system deployment is required to satisfy our bomber warning needs along the coastal air ...
... cost of $ 11 million in FY 1979. Tech- nical feasibility testing will be completed by the end of 1980 , after which time we will decide if system deployment is required to satisfy our bomber warning needs along the coastal air ...
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... cost of RDT & E , procurement of the system and initial spares , and directly related military construction . 2 / Includes $ 3.3 million for ship cost growth in the FY 1975 conversion program . Acquisition Costs of Major Strategic ...
... cost of RDT & E , procurement of the system and initial spares , and directly related military construction . 2 / Includes $ 3.3 million for ship cost growth in the FY 1975 conversion program . Acquisition Costs of Major Strategic ...
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Page 877 - Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, constitute the immediate military staff of the Secretary of Defense. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the principal military advisers to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense.
Page 193 - All requests to purchase major defense equipment are reviewed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Page 658 - To provide Fleet Marine Forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the Fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be...
Page 655 - States is to preserve the United States as a free nation with its fundamental institutions and values intact.
Page 260 - Force (Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations) General Counsel, Department of the Army Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Equal Opportunity) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs...
Page 192 - The United States will not be the first supplier to introduce into a region newly-developed, advanced weapons systems which would create a new or significantly higher combat capability.
Page 192 - We will continue to utilize arms transfers to promote our security and the security of our close friends. But in the future the burden of persuasion will be on those who favor a particular arms sale, rather than those who oppose it.
Page 14 - US advantages in other characteristics; and —— the US posture is not in fact, and is not seen as, inferior in performance to the strategic nuclear forces of the Soviet Union.
Page 193 - I am initiating this policy of restraint in the full understanding that actual reductions in the worldwide traffic in arms will require multilateral cooperation.
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