Harry Sloan 'Defended to
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Table 7. Contractor Dependency on the Department of Defense, (five-year average for top companies); constant (I980) prices reviews Fairchild Industries Grumman Hughes Aircraft* General Dynamics McDonnell Douglas Northrop Lockheed Raytheon Boeing United Technologies * Data for two years on decisively changed, and the massive military apparatus developed to drive out the Nazi invaders was subsequently consolidated to avert any future threat to Soviet borders.
The emergence of Soviet military power as a dominant force in Europe coincided with the assertion of American dominance over the capitalist nations.
The fighting had taken place thousands of miles from the USA, its economy, free from wardamage, boomed, with GNP doubling during the course of the war. Military victories in Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific strengthened the USA as a world power, supplemented by possession and deliberate use of the "If stationed in West Germany, the new Pershing II ballistic missiles, the most accurate missiles yet built, will be able to reach the UŞSR in 4 to 8 minutes. Faced with the prospect of Soviet missiles in Cuba, the USA declared it would not tolerate such a threat. Would it be surprising if the Soviet leadership took the same attitude towards a much more potent yet comparable threat today?"
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