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...offers no alternative to large-scale reductions and seems more interested in scolding Warnke for describing NATO build-up plans in terms of their political motivations. The new systems would be "ideal for striking logistical 'choke points' at the rear of an attacking Soviet army," Walt says. Warnke and numerous other experts have pointed out that existing U.S. land-and sea-based missiles could easily stop advancing armies if reducing all of Europe to a radioactive wasteland became desirable strategy...
...firemen found that the smoke was caused by a build-up of steam that sometimes plagues the steam-heated building...
This action comes as debate continues in the Pentagon and the White House over whether registration should be renewed after Congressional authorization expires in December and whether a draft is needed to fill new manpower requirements under the administration's plans for a military build...
...State Department quickly slapped his wrists, and there hasn't been a (public) peep from Pipes since. Pipes first burst into public view in 1976 when he headed Team B--a conservative team of defense specialists who concluded that the Soviet Union was in the midst of a military build-up undetected by American intelligence estimates...
Eventually we'll find out who's on the mark. For my part, I'm more interested in the three-year build-up than what will happen after it's all over...