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Increasing use should be made of National Guard and reserve forces in regional contingencies. Despite all these ambitious plans a Clinton Administration could save $60 billion over the current Bush plan through 1997.
There needed to be a root and branch look at the four separate armed services to reduce redundancy and duplication. A Clinton Administration would have a coherent conversion plan to maintain essential production lines and core skills. Redundant military personnel should be steered towards jobs as teachers and police officers.
Proliferation was one of the greatest dangers. The US should clamp down on countries and companies that sell proscribed technology. The US needed better intelligence about nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes in Third World countries.
The speech has been generally well received but swamped by the publicity surrounding Baker's move from the State Department to the White House. This suits Clinton whose main aim is to establish credibility amongst foreign policy experts rather than to be heard by the mass of the electorate who are not enormously interested in foreign policy and security questions just at the moment.
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Vonathan R.
J N Powell
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