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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... direct the necessary action . We do not want our response to be independent of or insensitive to the nature and weight of an attack . Accordingly , our second - strike forces must have the capability to execute either a full - scale ...
... direct the necessary action . We do not want our response to be independent of or insensitive to the nature and weight of an attack . Accordingly , our second - strike forces must have the capability to execute either a full - scale ...
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... direct costs , in TOA , are estimated a . $ 55.4 billion in the program budget . The program total represents 44 percent of the total defense budget , or nearly six times as much as we spend on the strategic nuclear forces . With these ...
... direct costs , in TOA , are estimated a . $ 55.4 billion in the program budget . The program total represents 44 percent of the total defense budget , or nearly six times as much as we spend on the strategic nuclear forces . With these ...
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... direct support . Only ground forces can hold territory and provide the fine - grained defense necessary to halt enemy breakthroughs . But we also need to break up the momentum of the attack , disrupt its command - control , and attack ...
... direct support . Only ground forces can hold territory and provide the fine - grained defense necessary to halt enemy breakthroughs . But we also need to break up the momentum of the attack , disrupt its command - control , and attack ...
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... direct force contributions . Clearly the most efficient use of our resources is in helping to strengthen the indigenous capabilities and improve their integration with other allied capabilities , especially in the south . C. Northeast ...
... direct force contributions . Clearly the most efficient use of our resources is in helping to strengthen the indigenous capabilities and improve their integration with other allied capabilities , especially in the south . C. Northeast ...
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... direct force contributions . Clearly the most efficient use of our resources is in helping to strengthen the indigenous capabilities and improve their integration with other allied capabilities , especially in the south . C. Northeast ...
... direct force contributions . Clearly the most efficient use of our resources is in helping to strengthen the indigenous capabilities and improve their integration with other allied capabilities , especially in the south . C. Northeast ...
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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