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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... conventional balance between NATO and the Warsaw 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 ...
... conventional balance between NATO and the Warsaw 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 ...
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... conventional cap- abilities . Strategic parity has not created this problem ; the United States and its allies have been at risk to Soviet nuclear attacks for many years . But nuclear parity has forced all of us to recognize that the ...
... conventional cap- abilities . Strategic parity has not created this problem ; the United States and its allies have been at risk to Soviet nuclear attacks for many years . But nuclear parity has forced all of us to recognize that the ...
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... conventional weapons . The temptation to use the weapons , or fear that someone else will do it first , will be almost irresistible . The ever - growing trade in conventional arms subverts inter- national commerce from a force for peace ...
... conventional weapons . The temptation to use the weapons , or fear that someone else will do it first , will be almost irresistible . The ever - growing trade in conventional arms subverts inter- national commerce from a force for peace ...
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... conventional weapons . The temptation to use the weapons , or fear that someone else will do it first , will be almost irresistible . The ever - growing trade in conventional arms subverts inter- national commerce from a force for peace ...
... conventional weapons . The temptation to use the weapons , or fear that someone else will do it first , will be almost irresistible . The ever - growing trade in conventional arms subverts inter- national commerce from a force for peace ...
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... but not sufficient for deterrence in the current era . To complement them , we must maintain theater nuclear and conventional capabilities . 23-237 O - 78-3 These three components are required because we no longer seriously 29.
... but not sufficient for deterrence in the current era . To complement them , we must maintain theater nuclear and conventional capabilities . 23-237 O - 78-3 These three components are required because we no longer seriously 29.
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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