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Meanwhile, President Bok and former Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney requesting that the military reconsider its discriminatory policies. The letter came in response to a Faculty Council resolution last spring making similar demands, threatening to stop accepting ROTC scholarships if the controversial policy is not reversed...
...billion from the Pentagon's $307 billion proposed budget, eliminating such high-priced weapons as the B-2 Stealth bomber and mobile MX missile. The Senate was only slightly more restrained, chopping $18 billion. While disagreeing with some items on the congressional hit list, even Defense Secretary Dick Cheney agreed that some reductions were needed. He had just completed a strategic review and was about to propose cutting 10% from the Pentagon budget and 25% from its manpower over the next five years...
Moreover, the crisis has raised doubts about the Pentagon's post-cold war concepts. In his strategic review, Cheney envisioned potential conflict with states that are lightly armed compared with the U.S. Iraq, with the world's fourth largest army and a huge array of Soviet-built tanks and planes, modern missiles and artillery, is not what the Pentagon was planning for. Another rethinking is getting started...
Instead, the services are seizing the moment to argue against cutbacks they reluctantly agreed to during Cheney's strategic review. The Air Force puts out straight-faced claims for potential B-2 utility in the gulf. Generals argue that reducing the Army from 18 to 12 divisions is not a good idea. The Navy insists it must keep 14 aircraft carriers deployed and not 11, as Cheney had proposed to the service chiefs...
Even if a shooting war with Iraq occurs, the modest cuts Cheney was about to order are still reasonable. If he draws back under service pressure, it would take courage for Congress to ignore charges of lack of patriotism and push the reductions through. It may come to that. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Les Aspin, offers a Washington truism: "It's still easier for politicians to cut defense than to raise taxes or cut domestic spending." Of course, if a hot war with Iraq breaks out, all such bets are off. That could cost...