DONALD E. RICHBOURG, J. DAVID WILLSON, JOHN G. PLASHal, Robert V. Davis, Sandra A. GIL- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1990 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE DONALD E. RICHBOURG, J. David Willson, JOHN G. PLASHAL, ROBERT V. Davis, SANDRA A. GIL- Kr 27 .A6 1949 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania BOB CARR, Michigan ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia LINDSAY THOMAS, Georgia CHESTER G. ATKINS, Massachusetts JIM CHAPMAN, Texas SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts DEAN A. GALLO, New Jersey FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1990 TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1989. COMMANDER IN CHIEF, UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND WITNESS GEN. JOHN R. GALVIN, U.S. ARMY, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, U.S. EUROPEAN COMMAND INTRODUCTION Mr. MURTHA. The committee will come to order. Today we have General John Galvin, Commander in Chief, European Command. It is our purpose today to discuss the ability to carry out the NATO warfighting strategy, the resources needed and on hand to carry out this strategy, and the possibility of making reductions without affecting warfighting capability. We are delighted to have you before the committee. I have looked at your statement and your statement will appear in its entirety in the record. If you will summarize it for us then we will proceed with questions. SUMMARY STATEMENT OF GENERAL GALVIN General GALVIN. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the chance to be here, and I also would like to say from the beginning, I deeply appreciate your visit over to Europe where you spent a great deal of time with members of this subcommittee and the committee itself looking around Europe and finding out firsthand what was going on. My commanders also were delighted that we had that opportunity. I would like to just make a brief summary. There are a lot of questions that are going to come up this year and a lot of tough issues. CHANGES IN THE SOVIET UNION First of all, surprisingly enough, the issue that is uppermost is, what is the situation. We have the Soviet Union going through a vast transition down the road where even the key Soviet leaders themselves admitted they don't know where that road goes, but what they have also said about that road is that it is not reversible. I think that puts us in a situation that we have not seen since the beginning of the Alliance, almost 40 years ago. We are inextri (1) |