Chemical Warfare: Background And Issues (open access)

Chemical Warfare: Background And Issues

This report concerns the renewed effort to modernize and expand the current US retaliatory chemical stockpile with binary munitions, which emerged in 1981. The effort is prompted by concern over the continued Soviet emphasis on chemical warfare capabilities. The report also documents the consistent Soviet refusal to accept a chemical warfare disarmament treaty.
Date: June 22, 1981
Creator: Kallis, E. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Issue Brief Number IB81096 (open access)

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Issue Brief Number IB81096

This report reviews the effectiveness of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was implemented in 1975. It also provides suggestions on solutions to problems the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is facing.
Date: June 3, 1981
Creator: Lindahl, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bomber Options for Replacing B52s (open access)

Bomber Options for Replacing B52s

One of the main issues discussed in this report is the replacement of the B-52 bombers, due to the fact that many believe that by 1990, the B-52's vulnerability to improving Soviet air defenses will imperil its effectiveness as a penetrating bomber.
Date: June 17, 1981
Creator: Mitchell, Douglas D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recruiting, Retention, and Quality in the All-Volunteer Force (open access)

Recruiting, Retention, and Quality in the All-Volunteer Force

This report highli8hts some of the major issues of recruiting, retention, and quality raised by the transition to an All-Volunteer Force (AVF) and efforts to maintain it in the 1970s and 1980s. The strategic and political basis of current military manpower policy provides the framework for a discussion of quantitative, qualitative, and analytical and administrative issues regarding the A'TF.
Date: June 8, 1981
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
System: The UNT Digital Library