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Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
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Strategic Arms Reduction Talks 1982-1992
STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS. In 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson and Leonid I. Brezhnev, Soviet Communist party chairman, agreed to open the first of an eventual two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). By this time, the three basic issues that had stalled... Read more |
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Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff
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Strategic arms limitation treaties
STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TREATIES Coming on the heels of the 1968 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the two components of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties (SALT) represented a willingness by the United States and the Soviet Union to constrain an arms race that both recognized was... Read more |
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OSS (United States Office of Strategic Services)
OSS (United States Office of Strategic Services) ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the first centralized United States intelligence agency. Created in 1942, the agency spearheaded the United States intelligence community, both civilian and ... Read more |
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Military intelligence
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE Although the means have grown more sophisticated, the basic function of military intelligence (voyennaya razvedka ) has remained unchanged: collecting, analyzing and disseminating information about the enemy's intentions and its ability to carry them out. Since the Soviet era,... Read more |
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Looking Glass
Looking Glass Looking Glass is the nickname for the Airborne Command Post, which was implemented by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War to ensure that operations would continue in the event that the primary strategic command centers were rendered... Read more |
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Operational Art
Operational Art is a twentieth‐century concept dealing with the direction of military forces in conceiving and executing operations to attain strategic objectives. It involves joint and combined forces and apportioning resources to tactical units. Operational art forms a bridge between... Read more |
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START I Treaty
START I Treaty ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, now known as START I, was one of the key weapons agreements forged during the détente period of the late Cold War era. Negotiations for strategic weapon reductions of the United States and Soviet... Read more |
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Argument in Holocaust denial: the differences between historical casuistry...
...Burke, Rhetoric 72-73). Casuistic stretching. (2) is a function of language that...recognizes the space between certainty (syllogisms) and probability (enthymemes). Without...studying a recent instance of casuistic stretching: the libel suit brought by Holocaust... |
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Mark Sheehan: Phatman comes to the rescue
...thing. It's hard to argue with the first two legs of this syllogism. The conclusion, however, is downright frightening. In...to make a difference in this confusing world. OK, I'm stretching that web a bit too thin. Still, early television did have... |
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Bar room psychoanalysis? I'll drink to that ...
...For those of us around at the time, his wilder texts were mind-stretching little literary trips, from the weird and frightening The Bird of Paradise to the coiled syllogisms of Knots. But when one thinks of him today, it's of a man drenched... |