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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-11-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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Bomb!
A Class Fighter pamphlet 10p 10p plus postage trom 214 Sickert Court, London N1 2SY. arms race in history.
By 1967 the stockpile of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles had been increased from 200 under Eisenhower to over 1,000. A new fleet of 41 Polaris submarines was deployed carrying 656 missile launchers. 600 long-range nuclear bombers were in the front line: 40% always on high alert.
On the "conventional" front, Kennedy in 1961 put a $3.2 billion additional military budget through Congress and extended the armed forces by 300.000 men.
He set up a counter-insurgency force to stamp out revolutionary struggles in Asia or Latin America; later to become notorious as the Green Berets, they were lavishly supplied with the best officers and men, superior equipment Privi are sure that we can avoid the third."
Santo Domingo In 1961, as a prelude to Johnson's later military invasion, Kennedy sent a task force to lie at anchor off Santa Domingo in an effort to shape events to the satisfaction of the US State Department.
Kennedy's belligerent defence of the Western presence in Berlin was another source of conflict in a turbulent first year of office.
Refusing to negotiate any settlement with Kremlin leader Khruschev, Kennedy bolstered US armed forces in Europe by 40,000 men and made televised speeches insisting that West Berlin could and would be militanly defended at all costs. -Socialist Organiser no. 156, November 24, '983, Page rnational news