THE FULL MEANING of this new arms race has been highlighted by the announcement of the new United States budget. ouager proposes. * $268bn out of a total of $758bn to be spent on defence total. This compares with $176bn last year. * The extra money for defence to be paid for with cuts in health care, food stamps, social services for the elderly, housing, and education. * A huge increase in money spent on the MX missile system, the B-1 bomber, the Trident submarine and the Stealth nuclear bomber. More money to be spent on the quick-action Rapid Deployment Force, navy and airforce generally.
No one can now doubt that the United States is engaged in a huge re-armament programme. Faced with a growing threat to its prestige and power from the revolutionsin Central America and political developments in the Middle East, strengthening its ability to intervene.
The key instrument here is Deployment Force (RDF). The RDF aims to put 100,000 soldiers in the field within ten days. The Egypt involved US bombers flying from Colorado to drop bombs in the Egyptian desert and then flying back again. The training of the RDF in guerrilla and desert warfare leaves no room for doubt as to those regions of the world where it is designed to be used. It is not for confronting the Soviet Union in Europe, but aimed to strike a massive blow against revolutions in the third world' The defence of the United and wealth also involves a big build up of its nuclear capabilities. Since war the US has striven for 'first strike' capacioverwhelming over the Soviet Union. ' ticularly necessary when the United States needs to use its muscle its muscle In the past six months the United States has engaged in military action against Libya. ano upped threats Nicaraqua.
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Apart from constituting a massive threat to world peace gramme is also a American working class. ween welfare services and defence has never been so open.
By announcing these increases in defence spending, the United States has given its reply to the proposal by Soviet leader Brezhnev for a missiles in Europe by 1990.
For some time the Soviet Union has been saying that the disarmament negotiations in Geneva were bogged United States isn't interested in serious progress. On this, right.
This administration, debates, engaged military build up and war. Sooner or later all this armament is going socialists, to counter means stepping up support for the activities of CND and, especially, in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of Central America, fighting US-backed dictatorships.
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