Volume 23, Number 21 & 22 · January 20, 1977
The Arms Boom and How to Stop It
By Emma Rothschild
The Game of Disarmament
by Alva Myrdal
Pantheon, 397 pp., $15.00
Controlling the Conventional Arms Race
by the United Nations Association
UNA, New York, 87 pp., $2.00
US Military Sales to Iran Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
A Staff Report to the Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance of the
US Government Printing Office, 59 pp.
There are very many things to be said against Jimmy Carter's defense advisers. The most important has to do with Vietnam. The people Carter has chosen were involved closely and resolutely in the prosecution of the Vietnam war. These men march through the pages of the Pentagon Papers. They form a group portrait of the forces in America which prolonged the war. They played their parts: Harold Brown, as secretary of the air force, describing bombing targets in 1968; James Schlesinger at RAND, inventing war games; Brzezinski, the academic, debating on television to defend the war; Cyrus Vance, the troubled moderate in the Department of Defense, surviving the 1960s. Not one of the people who influence Carter's defense policy stood in any public way for opposition to Kennedy's and Johnson's war.
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