 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1988 - 588 pages
...capacity and will to continue the war. An essential element of our strategy is forward defense. He lack the depth to carry out a more traditional strategy,...down the attacker and to organize a counter-attack. Forward defense contributes to MAID'S strategy ot deterrence because the Soviets recognize that any... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1988 - 466 pages
...for starting our defense as close to the border as possible. Principal among them is the fact that we lack the depth to carry out a more traditional...superior force trades space for the time needed to ascertain the nature of the attack, wear down the attacker, and organize a counterattack. Forward defense... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1988 - 1502 pages
...capacity and will to continue the war. An essential element of our strategy is forward defense. He lack the depth to carry out a more traditional strategy,...numerically superior force trades space for the time needea to wear down the attacker and to organize a counter-attack. Forward defense contributes to NATO's... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1988 - 264 pages
...capacity and will to continue the war. An essential element of flexible response is the concept of forward defense. We lack the depth to carry out a more traditional...attacker and to organize a counter-attack. Instead, our strategy relies on the threat to escalate the conflict by employing nuclear weapons to increase the... | |
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We lack the depth to carry out a more traditional strategy, in which a defender facing a numerically superior force trades space for the time needed to wear down the attacker and to organize a counter-attack. Forward defense contributes to... 