Department of Defense Appropriations for ..., Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 |
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Page 544 - A comprehensive test ban remains a long term objective of the United States. We believe such a ban must be viewed in the context of a time when we do not need to depend on nuclear deterrence to ensure international security and stability and when we have achieved broad, deep, and verifiable arms reductions, substantially improved verification capabilities, expanded confidence-building measures, and greater balance of conventional forces.
Page 48 - Agencies —and to guide work of the Joint Staff. Further, I am most encouraged with the quality of personnel assigned to the Joint Staff and the support I am receiving on some very complex and thorny political, military, and operational issues. Concurrently, real progress has been made in the area of resource analyses and net assessments. Overall, we are steadily improving our ability to integrate defense resources and warfighting capabilities. Additionally, we are striving to achieve excellence...
Page 630 - God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 489 - CINC staff members, and representatives from appropriate government agencies. The resulting security assistance program recommended to Congress is tailored for the individual country. Beginning in FY 1985, FMSCR and MAP have undergone a precipitous decline in funding approved by Congress. Foreign Military Sales and Foreign Military Sales Credit Programs The FMS Program enables eligible governments to purchase defense equipment, services, and training from the United States on a cash, credit, or MAP...
Page 504 - AWACS patrols provide added coverage until the present Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line radars are replaced by the NWS. The NWS searching north and OTH-B radars searching east, west, and south will provide a capability for tactical warning at ranges allowing increased response time against aircraft and cruise missiles.
Page 47 - s statement. Overall, these cost-avoidance measures will have only limited impact on our forward defense posture in Europe and Asia. The industrial allies must understand, however, that our strategic reserve of conventional forces is going down not up and, in turn, become less dependent upon that reserve in their own defense planning. Strategic and Space Programs With respect to strategic and space programs, you will find that: o Procurement of the PEACEKEEPER...
Page 39 - A forward-looking and fully-integrated national strategy, of course, must do more than focus on fundamental interests. From time to time, governments must take stock of continuities, changes, and challenges in the world around them.
Page 486 - Therefore, the US Navy maintains forces capable of seeking out and destroying enemy naval forces, maintaining local air and sea control, projecting forces ashore, supporting ground forces, and transporting forces and supplies. The maritime balance, therefore, must be viewed from a global perspective. The Soviet Navy continues to evolve into a balanced force capable of performing sea control missions in waters contiguous to the USSR and sea denial operations.
Page 40 - Power projection capabilities are increasing at a steady pace not only on and around the Eurasian Continent but also in space. The Free World has accommodated to the Soviet penchant for numbers, but even more worrisome we are now seeing our traditional qualitative edge erode. I won't dwell on specifics since you are thoroughly familiar with the depth and breadth of the Kremlin's impressive military investment. This is not to say that there are no flaws in the Soviet machine. There are. To cite some...
Page 168 - Survival of the United States as a free and independent nation, with its fundamental values intact and its institutions and people secure...