Alliance and Defense Capabilities in Europe: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, August 4; October 7, 20; Novemeber 3, 17, 1987 |
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Page 112 - ... initiatives. Reducing impediments to even greater international industrial cooperation and increasing industry input in government-to-government cooperative negotiations should be priorities for NATO defense planners. -- A crucial no-cost first step to unleashing private industry cooperative initiatives is a thorough review of US government technology export licensing procedures. viii As the European allies move toward the inevitable merging of defense acesodyne and the creation of a common armaments...
Page 171 - They aim at fixed values; but in war everything is uncertain, and calculations have to be made with variable quantities. They direct the inquiry exclusively toward physical quantities, whereas all military action is intertwined with psychological forces and effects.
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Page 180 - Balance: 1985-1986 declared that our conclusion remains that the conventional overall balance is still such as to make general military aggression a highly risky undertaking for either side. Though possession of the initiative in war will always permit an aggressor to achieve a local advantage in numbers...
Page 71 - Members of the Committee: It is a great pleasure to appear before you today to discuss the subject of health care reform.
Page 67 - Mr. Chairman, it is a great pleasure for me to appear before you and Senator Cotton and Senator Boggs once again.
Page 80 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, I just have a couple of questions. Joe, of the 68 agencies filing end of the year statements for 1983, 61 of them reported their agencies...
Page 74 - ... there would still appear to be insufficient overall strength on either side to guarantee victory.
Page 111 - ... will Insist that the flow of technology and information be a two-way affair, while calls for even greater technology transfer safeguards in the wake of the Toshiba/Konigsberg affair will multiply. Despite these problems, it is critical to push a coordinated Alliance R&D program forward. o The range of US advanced technology R&D projects must be reviewed to identify specific technologies which could be most easily exploited cooperatively under BTI with the Allies. The new phase of allied cooperative...
Page 87 - off the shelf purchases of effective Allied equipment? Has each service established, as the Secretary's memorandum directed, "an education program for their personnel in order to develop and maintain appreciation for the significance of, and individual role in, furthering of Alliance collective security through armaments cooperation?