Defense Issues, Volume 6American Forces Information Service, 1991 |
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Page 20 - Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice ; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Page 16 - Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-25), Washington DC: Department of Defense, April 1992 (hereafter cited as CPGW), p.
Page 16 - Reservists have volunteered or have been called to active duty to serve at bases in the United States and in other parts of the world.
Page 23 - How the Great Democracies Triumphed, and so Were able to Resume the Follies Which Had so Nearly Cost Them Their Life.
Page 12 - This year's budget request funds a training tempo approximately the same as in FY 1991. Active Army ground and air training operations will continue at 800 miles per year for combat vehicles and 14.5 flying hours per month for tactical aircrews. Navy steaming days remain at 50.5/29.0 days per quarter for the deployed/nondeployed fleets. Flying hours for active Air Force tactical aircrews will hold at about 19 hours per month in...
Page 12 - The costs for operation Desert Shield are to be treated as emergency funding requirements not subject to the defense spending limits. Funding for Desert Shield will be provided through the normal legislative process. Desert Shield costs should be accommodated through Allied burden-sharing, subsequent appropriation Acts, and if the President so chooses, through offsets within other defense accounts. Emergency Desert...
Page 16 - And through all this welter of change and development your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable. It is to win our wars.
Page 12 - WE ARE WORKING TOWARD REDUCING THE NUMBER OF ITERATIONS OF REPORT DRAFTS. SEQUENCING: MANY MORE CLEANUP ACTIVITIES CAN BE CONDUCTED SIMULTANEOUSLY RATHER THAN SEQUENTIALLY. WHILE THIS IS ALREADY BEING DONE. I THINK WE CAN DO EVEN MORE.
Page 16 - This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin — war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins; war by ambush instead of by combat, by infiltration instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him.
Page 12 - FY 1991 Desert Shield baseline costs, through March 1991. The term "baseline" refers to the cost to maintain and support our forces without hostilities. Hostilities add a highly unpredictable daily cost to a fairly steady baseline Desert Shield cost. Our baseline Desert Shield costs are estimated to be $9.1 billion for October through December 1990 and $12.3 billion for January through March 1991. DoD has been financing these costs out of our regular appropriations, principally from the Military...