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...ended a two-week tour of the Pacific last week, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney concluded that the governments of Japan and South Korea still appreciate their U.S. protectors, despite anti-American sentiment among some political factions. Yet Cheney caught a slap from Philippine President Corazon Aquino. The U.S. Congress had recently cut $96 million from a $481 million military and economic aid package that Aquino apparently considered a precondition for negotiations on renewing U.S. leases to operate the huge Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base. Miffed, she canceled plans to meet Cheney. The Defense Secretary took the snub...
What would the military give up if Washington imposed cuts far deeper than those Cheney suggested last week? Here are several scenarios...
...that respect, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's 1991 budget was all the more disappointing. Not only were his suggested cuts minimal, but the larger issues of military restructuring were tossed aside in the political jockeying over the proposal to close or scale back 72 military bases and installations. Cheney has appointed a task force to review the Pentagon's gold-plated strategic-weapons systems. But, notes Gordon Adams, respected director of the independent Defense Budget Project, "he did not even hint at slowing down any of them." These include the mobile MX/rail garrison missile project (budgeted for $2.8 billion...
...Though Cheney's initiatives will add much needed support and equipment to the badly overextended interdiction efforts, the Pentagon's initial misgivings about its drug involvement were well founded. Troops trained to locate and destroy hostile forces are less effective at the more delicate task of tracking and arresting smugglers, which more often depends on good police work. In 1984 the U.S. Navy set up sea checkpoints off Colombia in an antidrug maneuver dubbed Operation Hat Trick. The operation was cut short, according to a U.S. military officer, because the results did not seem to justify the costs. Nor does...
...deployment of a carrier task force is just one of several proposals to expand the military's antidrug role that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is expected to approve when the controversy subsides. Among the others...