Word: rearmament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, the Reagan Administration has badly mismanaged the presentation of this paradox. It has talked far too often, too simplistically and too provocatively about nuclear war. It has pursued rearmament indiscriminately and disarmament unconvincingly. Thus it has created a backlash against even legitimate efforts to strengthen U.S. defenses-and rendered itself vulnerable to caricatures like Scheer...
...Rearmament. Reagan promised a rapid buildup in U.S. military might and he has more than kept his word. The military budget is scheduled to total $1.6 trillion in the five fiscal years that began after he took office, and outlays are now rising 12% a year, by some calculations, after adjustment for inflation. This is faster than even the 5% increase Reagan targeted during the campaign. Whether the buildup is going too rapidly in light of the enormous budget deficits will be one of the most explosive controversies of the second half of the President's term...
...Reagan Administration's tough rhetoric, its attempt to consolidate anti-Soviet alliances and its program of across-the-board rearmament have all been intended to impress on the Soviets that they have a choice. They can moderate their conduct-which, by implication, means choosing more moderate rulers-and thereby earn a respite from conflict abroad that may be their last chance to tend to their home front. Or, if the succession struggle is resolved in favor of ideologues and expansionists, they can continue pursuing an aggressive course and thereby risk an almost inevitable, potentially cataclysmic confrontation with...
...forget its grand imperial illusions and curb centralized executive power. During his brief, 7½-month tenure as Premier, he pledged to end France's Indochina war within one month (and did so), gave autonomy to Tunisia and persuaded France's National Assembly to approve West German rearmament. Often politically unpopular because of his abrasive righteousness, Mendès France earned numerous enemies (including Charles de Gaulle) and was sometimes ridiculed, notably for his ill-starred recommendation that the bibulous French switch from wine to milk. But said Disciple François Mitterrand at his 1981 inauguration...
...their own deep-cuts plan was rudely thrown back in Cyrus Vance's face. This Administration is ready, if not eager, to engage in some serious, protracted stonewalling of its own at the disarmament talks in Geneva while it sells the American public on the need for massive rearmament...