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Publication Date: April 1989
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Jay P. Kosminsky
Research Area: Military and defense
Keywords: National security
Type: Report
Abstract:
Competitive Strategies is a new Pentagon policy-planning strategy that offers great potential for improving U.S. defenses. Competitive Strategies finds ways for the U.S. to take full advantage of inherent American military strengths while fully exploiting Soviet weaknesses. In practice this often means fielding advanced weapons that cannot be countered easily or cheaply by Moscow. Yet Competitive Strategies is a relatively new approach to defense planning, and some serious questions have been raised about its costs and long-term military effectiveness.