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Nato from Page 1 armours thai substantially reduce the effectiveness of nato antitank missiles. Artillery the Warsaw fad has Aboul 44,000 Artil Lery pieces mortars and multiple rocket launchers is. 18,300 in nato. Armoured or sonnet carriers fighting vehicles the Warsaw pact Fields 60,000 of these vehicles is. 34,400 in nato attack helicopters nato enjoys a slight Edge with 1,300 attack helicopters is. 1,250 for the Warsaw pact. Even Here he soviets gained valuable experience when i hair alack helicopters were widely used in the Afghanistan War Perroots noted. They went 10school in Afghanistan paid some heavy consequences lost a considerable number of aircraft but i m sure they have a Dau Bank on lessons Learned from that the trends in air forces Are not As unfavourable Fornato As those in ground forces according to most experts. The pact has More than 3,000 fight or incr captors is. About 1,400 for nato. But nato has some 3,850 bombers is. 3.450 for the Warsaw pact the Posi inf Era also will see the United slates pushing to gain concessions from the soviet in the area oui Ratesic Long Range nuclear weapons nato s strategy of deterrence is based on the con a Cal of flexible response which Calls for a variety of military responses to enemy aggression. Depending on the seriousness and nature of the aggression flexible response can Range from limited de sense Wilh conventional forces to All out nuclear War. Strategic forces encompass three types of nuclear weapons based on the ground in the air and in the Woler the soviets emphasize their ground based intercontinental ballistic missile Force. Over the last eight years the soviets have rapidly modernized this icbms Force making ii More survivable by hardening situs and adding newer models Wilh greater accuracy and mobility. Most recently the soviets introduced the rail to bile ss-24 and the Road Mobile ss-25. Because of ii massive resource investment in survivability and mobility and the improved accuracies of those systems we think that by 1996 All of their icbms Force will be very hard or very Mobile Perroots said. This greatly complicates any counter targeting Effort on our part. And 1 believe they feel very Comfort Able with that he said. On the other band. The slate Gic defense initiative the so called Star wars project represents a problem to some soviet planners because it constitutes a threat to their icbms investment per roots said. And that s one of the reasons i believe thai they Are absolutely determined to neutralize any Fielding of  while the soviets claim greater numbers of icbms the United stairs claims to have the most accurate icbms Force. It also is pursuing the development of Iwother icbms models thai would also be rail and Road Mobile. Nato claims a strategic Edge with its submarine launched ballistic missile Force. We have More War Heads. Despite the fact that the soviets and the pact have More submarines we have More warheads per roots said. On the other hand he said the soviets Are improving the Quality of their submarine Force going More to a bastion deployment closer to Home Waters and under he ice making nato counter targeting More complicated. And the submarines Are of a higher Quality quieter than some of their old submarines nato also claims an Edge in the third leg of the strategic triad the air launched cruise missile Force. We have better bombers and More weapons we have More refuelling Tanker support because we need to provide support Over longer distances and we Mink our Crews Are better trained per tools said. While nato has committed itself to modernizing both its nuclear and conventional forces some expert say thai political and economic trends could make achievement of these commitment difficult. In most. If not All of our nations defense spending will remain Static in several cases it will effectively decline while the Cost of men and equipment continues to spiral said Michael j. Bell. Nato s assistant Secretary general for defense planning and policy in a published article in nato review a Magazine published under the authority of nato. Nato officials also Are concerned that soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seeking to influence Public opinion May unilaterally Cul soviet troop strength in Eastern Europe. Such a move might make it More difficult for nato nations to explain to their constituents Why More Money must be spent to improve conventional and nuclear forces in Europe officials said. Finally there is the question of How much is enough. Facing tighter defense spending and a dwindling population base Alliance officials concede the chances of beefing up conventional forces in the future Are dim i would say we do not have a Chance even if we were interested to raise the number of forces on our Side a senior nato official said. I do not see any Chance to do Hal. That s because of the demographic reason budget  therefore he said when we Are going for reductions we need to be interested thai these reductions will be highly asymmetrical because of the Garcal advantage the Warsaw pact has. Although the West perhaps out of necessity has always maintained that it prefers Quality 10 Quantity numbers provide a certain Comfort. Pc roots made Hal Point by relating a Story about a senior . Mili tary officer who recently met a soviet commander vis iting Washington. When the . Officer reminded his soviet counterpart that nato believed in Hod the by incr Quality Force Perroots said the soviet officer without blinking an Eye replied "1 understand general but t believe in the Napoleonic theory that if 1 have the bigger Divi Sions in beat  treaty from Page 1 solved inthe operations one source said. The . Team has been Given the task of inspecting soviet Sites As Well As escorting soviet inspectors . Bases. The escorting team s Job is complicated by the fact that the soviets must be allowed to Sec the missiles covered by the treaty but to not Sec More than what he treaty says they can the source said. Mock inspections already have been conducted at . Bases with the tests going extreme1.y Well Accord ing to the sources. The number of Soviel bases involved in the treaty is 133. The United states has 26 bases 12 in Western Europe and the remainder in the states under the Terras of the treaty the soviets will be removing ss-20, ss-12, ss-5, and s5cx-4 missiles. The United suites will remove its Force of penning i nuclear missiles and its ground launched cruise mis Siles or Cal Chi which can carry bold nuclear and conventional armaments. The removal of the clams was of prime concern o South Carolina sen. Ernest Fritz mailing the Only Democrat to oppose the it pact. Hollings said Friday that including the gloms in the inf Accord was a unilateral Concession by . Negotiators who received no Concession in  sacrificing the cruise missiles Hollings said works to the soviets advantage. The soviets have no gloms he said. They have no need Cor clams because they have already covered All important West european military targets with their Short Range missiles permitted by the  Pentagon sources said the soviet Sscx-4s Are in fad equivalents of the gloms although the 84 a sex 4s to be removed have not Cyl been deployed. But nato s sacrificing of already deployed clams Hollins said eliminates the most potent weapon in its conventional Arsenal a weapon we have already deployed and one which the highest Pentagon advisory boards have identified As critical to the Long term conventional defense of Europe