The Balance of Military Forces: Hearing Before the Defense Burdensharing Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held March 3, 1988, Volume 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 105 pages |
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administration Ag(t aircraft alliance American ANDY IRELAND arms assistance attack attacker's attrition rate bean counting close air combat Congress Congressional Congressional Budget Office contribute cooperation costs countries defender's defense burden DEFENSE BURDENSHARING PANEL defense spending deployed deployment deterrence division economic effect Epstein Eugene Rostow Europe European allies example Germany going governments gross domestic product important increase initiatives interests Iran Iranians IRELAND Japan Japanese KELLEY Kuwait Lanchester equations Lanchester's Madam Chairwoman MCCLOSKEY MCNAUGHER measures military balance million minesweepers NATO NATO's naval Navy negotiating nuclear weapons operations options PATRICIA SCHROEDER percent Persian Gulf Persian Gulf region personnel political problems question RATHJENS Reagan reflagging Saudi SCHROEDER share ships SISISKY Soviet Union stalemate STERNER strategic substantial superpowers talking tanks Thank things Third World threat tion U.S. allies U.S. forces U.S. military United War Powers Resolution Warsaw Pact West Western withdrawal
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Page 12 - America cannot — and will not — conceive all the plans, design all the programs, execute all the decisions, and undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world.
Page 28 - ... reliable than the Soviet Union's. Western active-duty units generally receive more training than Warsaw Pact units, and Western training is by and large much more realistic. It draws on more combat experience and the accumulated expertise of militarily skillful friends — Israel, for example. Finally, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NATO enjoys a substantial technological lead in many critical military areas. Last June, for instance, General Charles A. Gabriel, as Air Force chief of...
Page 60 - ... it is ridiculous to pretend to calculate anything. The answer to this is simple: the direct numerical comparison of the forces engaging in conflict or available in the event of war is almost universal. It is a factor always carefully reckoned with by the various military authorities; it is discussed ad nauseam in the Press. Yet such direct counting of forces is in itself a tacit acceptance of the applicability of mathematical principles, but confined to a special case. To accept without reserve...
Page 45 - J 5. This study is, of course, concerned specifically with problems beyond those encountered by all models (for example, the need to aggregate; to estimate effectiveness coefficients and other numbers; to idealize and simplify). A number of the aggregation and other problems that all models face are discussed in JA Stockfish, Models, Data, and War: A Critique of the Study of Conventional Forces...
Page 28 - Technological advantages and differences in pilot skill underlie these disparities. It would be imprudent to assume NATO-Pact ratios at the high end of the spectrum, but it is unduly pessimistic to assume that the Pact's modest numerical edge should somehow nullify NATO's superior, and far more extensive, training and its continuing technological...
Page 7 - Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asian Affairs and since I appeared before you in support of the fiscal year 1962 program.