Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - United States |
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... Pact in Europe is a matter of serious concern . That is why we and our NATO allies , in May , 1977 , recognized the need to raise our respective levels of defense spending by approxi- mately three percent a year in real terms . That is ...
... Pact in Europe is a matter of serious concern . That is why we and our NATO allies , in May , 1977 , recognized the need to raise our respective levels of defense spending by approxi- mately three percent a year in real terms . That is ...
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... Pact main- tains and continues to improve its capability to launch a major attack on Western Europe . Such an attack could be nuclear or non - nuclear . It might occur after some days or weeks of mobilization and deployment by the Warsaw ...
... Pact main- tains and continues to improve its capability to launch a major attack on Western Europe . Such an attack could be nuclear or non - nuclear . It might occur after some days or weeks of mobilization and deployment by the Warsaw ...
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... Pact . By contrast , many NATO countries produce modern naval , air , and ground warfare equipment . This asymmetry in favor of the West makes possible an adequate collective defense of NATO at a lower burden on U.S. citizens than the ...
... Pact . By contrast , many NATO countries produce modern naval , air , and ground warfare equipment . This asymmetry in favor of the West makes possible an adequate collective defense of NATO at a lower burden on U.S. citizens than the ...
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... Pact also have FROG and SCUD launchers and some nuclear - capable aircraft , although the warheads for them remain under Soviet control . Much of this capability is longer in range than the counterpart NATO systems . While these are ...
... Pact also have FROG and SCUD launchers and some nuclear - capable aircraft , although the warheads for them remain under Soviet control . Much of this capability is longer in range than the counterpart NATO systems . While these are ...
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... Pact armored threat . If the President decides to produce them , and if our allies agree , we are prepared to deploy them for the LANCE missile . These weapons would not lower the nuclear threshold : the conse- quences of using any ...
... Pact armored threat . If the President decides to produce them , and if our allies agree , we are prepared to deploy them for the LANCE missile . These weapons would not lower the nuclear threshold : the conse- quences of using any ...
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active addition air defense aircraft airlift allies amphibious areas Army assessment attack balance ballistic missile base bomber capability carrier CHART command and control communications continue conventional cost cruise missile DEFENSE BUDGET Department of Defense deployed deployment deterrence effective efforts enemy equipment Europe fiscal fleet force levels force structure funds helicopter ICBM improve increase initial launchers logistic maintain maintenance major manpower Marine Corps ment military million MINUTEMAN MINUTEMAN III mission mobility modernization NATO naval forces Navy's nuclear forces nuclear weapons operations percent personnel planned potential procurement production projected readiness reduce request requirements reserve satellites sea control Secretary BROWN Senator STENNIS shipbuilding ships SLBM Soviet Navy Soviet Union squadrons SSBNs strategic nuclear submarines surveillance TACFIRE targets theater nuclear theater nuclear forces threat TRIDENT U.S. forces U.S. Navy United USSR V/STOL warfare Warsaw Pact weapon systems