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Publication Date: June 1987
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Wayne A. Abernathy
Research Area: Military and defense; Trade
Keywords: Trade and foreign aid
Type: Report
Abstract:
If the U.S. seeks to be secure, it must choose between the costs of an effective export control system and dramatically increased defense spending. If the U.S. is not going to maintain its technological edge, then it will have to balance the Warsaw Pact in numbers. The Israelis, who rely on Western arms against overwhelmng numerical odds, have shown that the technological edge can make the essential difference on the battlefield.