Time: Mon Dec 01 07:01:35 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: US strategists warn of military threat 'at home' (fwd) Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > >>From the London Telegraph: > >International News >Electronic Telegraph >Monday 1 December 1997 >Issue 921 > >US strategists warn of military threat 'at home' >By Hugo Gurdon in Washington > >A PROFOUND shift in American military strategy, emphasising "defence >of the homeland" rather than exercising power overseas, will be >recommended by a special Pentagon panel today. > >As Nato leaders gather in Brussels this week, William Cohen, the >American Defence Secretary, will be studying a report that says military >planners should concentrate on meeting the growing threat of attack on the >American mainland. > >Although America was threatened with a Soviet nuclear strike during the >Cold War and countered it with its own missiles overseas, a National >Defence Panel now says more attention should be paid to the threat of hit >and run attacks on US cities by a growing number of countries. > >The panel, created by Congress last year, notes that more enemies of >America, such as Iraq, Iran and North Korea, are developing biological or >chemical weapons and the means to deliver them. > >© Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997. > <snip>
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