Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 5068 (H.R. 5970), Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1978, Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 1196 pagini |
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ACTIVE FLEET Admiral HOLLOWAY air defense Air Force aircraft airlift allies appropriate Army attack AWACS balance base bomber capability carrier CHAIRMAN CHART civil defense combat committee Congress continue conventional cost cruise missiles DAN DANIEL deleted Department of Defense deployed deployment deterrence effective effort equipment Europe facilities fiscal year 1978 force structure funds going helicopter ICBM ICHORD improved increase JONES launchers maintain major manpower Marine Corps ment military million mission mobility modernization NATO naval forces Navy Navy's nuclear forces operations percent personnel planning posture problem procurement production projected question RDTE readiness reduce request requirements Reserve Components Secretary BROWN ships SLBM Soviet Navy Soviet Union SSBN strategic nuclear STRATTON submarines tactical tank targets Thank theater nuclear forces threat U.S. Navy United USSR V/STOL warfare Warsaw Pact weapon systems
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Pagina 203 - Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method of production, of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes; 2 Weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.
Pagina 364 - It shall be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained combat Incident to operations at sea. It shall be responsible for the preparation of naval forces necessary for the effective prosecution of war except as otherwise assigned, and. In accordance with Integrated joint mobilization plans, for the expansion of the peacetime components of the Navy to meet the needs of war.
Pagina 849 - We will provide more for the record, Mr. Chairman. [The following information was received for the record...
Pagina 979 - Union should be directly targeted, and that an important objective of the assured retaliation mission should be to retard significantly the ability of the USSR to recover from a nuclear exchange and regain the status of a 20th century military and industrial power more rapidly than the United States.
Pagina 928 - But events of the past two decades have not made the United States more independent politically, economically, or culturally. On the contrary, the realities of interdependence — more so than ever before in our history — oblige us to face the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. No nation is "an Island, entire of itself;" "every nation is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.
Pagina 111 - Strategic Forces General Purpose Forces Intelligence and Communications Airlift and Sealift Guard and Reserve Forces Research and Development Central Supply and Maintenance Training, Medical, Other General Personnel Activities...
Pagina 203 - In the BW Convention the parties undertake not to develop, produce, stockpile, acquire or retain biological agents or toxins of types or in quantities that have no justification for peaceful uses, as well as weapons, equipment...
Pagina 584 - The mission of the Navy, as set forth in Title 10, US Code, is to be prepared to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea in support of national interests; in effect, to assure continued maritime superiority for the United States.
Pagina 1025 - I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf. It is a fine broad stairway at the beginning, but after a bit the carpet ends. A little further on there are only flagstones, and a little further on still these break beneath your feet.
Pagina 111 - Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, Department of the Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.