Word: command
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what about the notion, raised in Brest, of joint command...
Kravchuk told me, "I assure you, nothing will change with regard to strategic forces." I told him, "You should announce publicly that until a new defense treaty is signed, there will be no hasty decisions regarding the armed forces, and that the military will stay under a single command and under my control. Don't go introducing uncertainty into these matters! The whole world is watching. Don't confuse people...
...defined as an army without a country. Gorbachev and his generals will hardly be eager to see their control diluted. Before the referendum, in fact, the Soviet Defense Ministry pointedly told troops in Ukraine, including those controlling nuclear weapons, that whatever happened, they would remain under Moscow's command, not Kiev...
Even then, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney judges "remote" the likelihood of intercontinental ballistic missiles coming under the thumb of anyone who would fire them at the U.S. The real menace, most experts believe, is a breakdown of the command structure that would put the easily mobile tactical weapons into dangerous hands. These nukes -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles, nuclear mines -- are much easier to seize than ICBMs stored in underground silos. Already the southern republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan have "nationalized" all military property on their soil, prompting Moscow to announce that the army would shoot...
...September rate ever. In the past two years 10% of New Hampshire's jobs have just disappeared. The rates of increase in the number of people on food stamps and welfare are the nation's highest. Housing experts say a home bought in the past five years won't command its purchase price at resale until the end of the century...