The Modern US War Machine

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What level of security should the United States seek? What degree of risk to peace, national independence, and freedom is acceptable?
The United States has global interests that can be threatened at many points around the world. The development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles means that no point on earth lies more than 30 minutes from destruction. Preservation of our lives and our freedom — indeed our nation's very survival — requires that we successfully prevent attack upon the United States and our vital interests. If we fail in this effort, we may have no second chance.
If deterrence failed and the United States were the victim of a nuclear attack, what would be the consequences for our lives, our freedoms, and our nation? President Reagan has repeatedly summarized the heart of the matter; "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." The imperative — a nuclearwarmust never be fought — follows from the fact that in a nuclear war with the... Tovább

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What level of security should the United States seek? What degree of risk to peace, national independence, and freedom is acceptable?
The United States has global interests that can be threatened at many points around the world. The development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles means that no point on earth lies more than 30 minutes from destruction. Preservation of our lives and our freedom — indeed our nation's very survival — requires that we successfully prevent attack upon the United States and our vital interests. If we fail in this effort, we may have no second chance.
If deterrence failed and the United States were the victim of a nuclear attack, what would be the consequences for our lives, our freedoms, and our nation? President Reagan has repeatedly summarized the heart of the matter; "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." The imperative — a nuclearwarmust never be fought — follows from the fact that in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union there would be no winner. The President's determination to ensure that a nuclear war will never be fought becomes the mandate for our defense program.
— Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, Annua! Report to Congress, Fiscal Year 1987.

THE MODERN
An encyclopedia of American military equipment and strategy
Edited by Ray Bonds
150,000 words More than 500 illustrations
There perhaps could not have been a more timely moment to publish this important book. The United States has demonstrably confirmed its determination to confront aggression whatever the scale, and, notwithstanding, is actively pursuing massive arms reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union which could ensure global stability for the foreseeable future. There is growing optimism for peaceful superpower coexistence, based on strength of resolve on the part of the United States, and on the increasing belief in the nation's capabilities to match military threat with military might if deterrence fails.
But, as this immensely fascinating book reveals, the optimism must be guarded, and the capabilities constantly enhanced by imaginative research and development and unwavering national will — for, without doubt, the threat not only to the American nation but to the future of the entire world is very real indeed.
This book, containing expert commentary illustrated with stunning photographs, shows the reader how the military might of the most powerful nation on Earth is organized and being upgraded today. It looks at every aspect of the United States military and national security spectrum, and covers every major weapon system in the huge inventory.
Expert authors, internationally respected in military and political circles, describe in more than 150,000 words how the United States could and would defend itself and the entire Western world, and project its immense power overseas to protect its vital interests. There has never been a more powerful military machine, and never a more powerful military publication. Vissza