The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, February 6, 19, 20, 25; March 5, 24; and April 30, 1992, Band 4,Seiten 84-85U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 658 Seiten |
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Seite 324 - ... deployments, exercises, exchanges and visits. Important too are arrangements to provide the infrastructure and logistical support to allow for the forward deployment of forces when necessary. Our maritime and long-range aviation forces enable us to exert a presence in areas where we have no land-based forces. As we adjust to the changing security environment, we are reducing our forward presence in Europe and Asia. The end of the Cold War...
Seite 7 - The Cold War has ended, and we now have a chance to forge a democratic peace, an enduring peace built on shared values - democracy and political and economic freedom. The strength of these values in Russia and the other new independent states will be the surest foundation for peace - and the strongest guarantee of our national security - for decades to...
Seite 317 - ... areas, including standoff precision weaponry, sophisticated sensors, stealth for surprise and survivability, night vision capabilities and antiballistic missile defenses. In large part this revolution tracks the development of new technologies such as the manipulation of information by microprocessors that has become familiar in our daily lives. The exploitation of these new technologies promises to change the nature of warfare significantly, as did the earlier advent of tanks, airplanes, and...
Seite 372 - To assist us in determining the size and shape of the Base Force, we have used several criteria. First, we considered the potential threats to US interests around the world. While we recognize that we cannot predict the exact location and nature of future threats, we have developed planning scenarios that focus on regions where US vital interests are likely to be threatened. Secondly, we recognized that the United States must retain certain capabilities to protect its interests around the globe....
Seite 331 - Defense (DoD) is $267.6 billion in budget authority and $272.8 billion in outlays. Adjusting for inflation, this means a real decline in budget authority of 7 percent below the FY 1992 level enacted by Congress and 29 percent below FY 1985.
Seite 179 - Act nor any unobligated balances from prior appropriations may be made available to any organization or program which, as determined by the President of the United States, supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization...
Seite 317 - The Persian Gulf war highlighted a fourth feature of our success, one painstakingly built throughout the 1980s. It is a victory of high-quality forces — of cutting edge military technology effectively used by talented, well-trained individuals. High technology systems vastly increased the effectiveness of our forces. This war demonstrated dramatically the new possibilities of what has been called the military-technological revolution in warfare.
Seite 506 - A new leadership in Baghdad that accepts the United Nations resolutions and is ready to live at peace with its neighbors and its own people will find a partner in the United States, one willing to seek to lift economic sanctions and help restore Iraq to its rightful place in the family of nations.
Seite 311 - The developed countries of the West are Russia's natural allies. It is time to say firmly that we are not adversaries . . . ." It is improbable that a global conventional challenge to US and Western security will reemerge from the Eurasian heartland for years to come. Even if some new leadership in Moscow were to try to recover its lost empire in Central Europe or to threaten NATO — and I would emphasize that the renunciation of such aims by the new Russian leaders enjoys broad support — the...
Seite 199 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2 pm, in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.