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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Soviet Force Reductions in Europe
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Date: 27 Nov 89 03:54:33 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: terryr@ogccse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker)
>Every discussion I have heard about the Soviet troop reductions in Europe
>that mentioned specifics tends to confirm what Kamps implied.  Most of the
>equipment removed has been obsolete or obsolescent...

Of course, the US is busily working on plans to do exactly the same in
the event of conventional-force-reduction agreements.  In particular, any
agreement to reduce NATO combat aircraft will result in wholesale scrapping
of old aircraft and elaborate shuffling (e.g. passing on semi-new aircraft
to allies to replace older ones) to make sure that all the new stuff stays.
There has been talk of late about the possibility that agreements might
contain clauses specifically aimed at preventing this.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu


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