The American Legion [Volume 124, No. 5 (May 1988)]

Cover: The Next Battleground? Computer Composition of Photos from Uniphoto Picture Agency by Lightscapes, Audrey Berg and Mark Frank, Boeing, U.S. Air Force, the LTV Corp, and Imange Bank -- Introduction: Providing for the Common Defense: Strength and Preparedness Are the Surest Routes to Guarantee America's Security by Nat'l Cmdr. John P "Jake" Comer -- Introduction: A Defense that Defends: The Uncertainty of a Successful First Strike Is the Key to Deterrence. SDI Would Create That Doubt in Soviet Minds by Secretary of Defense Frank C Carlucci -- The Free Enterprise Patriot: Part 3: Andrew Becomes an Equal-Opportunity Employer by John Rickey -- What I'll Do for Defense: The Presidential Candidates Answer the Question: If Elected, What Will Be Your Top Legislative Priority to Bolster America's National Defense? -- The Merchant of Lies: American Ignorance and Carelessness Help Make Soviet Disinformation Succeed by Richard F Staar -- Mutual Assured Destruction: Fake Jewel in the Crown of Arms Control: MAD's Madness to Man: Living in Wooden Houses without Fire Insurance by Richard N Perle -- ABM Treaty: Failure in the Trenches: Narrow Interpretations, Not the ABM Treaty Itself, Have Hurt U.S. Strategic Defense by Amb. Edward L Rowny -- How We Lost Our Nuclear Deterrent: "We Build. The Soviets Build. We Stop. The Soviets Build" by Robert Jastrow -- America's Silver-Bullet Defense: Current U.S. Technology, If Deployed, Would Remove the Specter of a Soviet Surprise Attack Aimed at Crippling Our Retaliatory Forces by James Frelk -- Our Window of Vulnerability: Without SDI, the Nation's Awesome Military Might Can't Defend Even One American from a Missile Attack -- The Nation's Pulse on SDI and Defense: "How Effective Will SDI Be?" "How Much Will SDI Cost?" and Other Questions Americans Ask Most About SDI -- SDI and Soviet Foreign Policy: Moscow Has a Morbid Fear of America's SDI Potential . . . and for Good Reason by Dmitry Mikheyev -- Regaining the High Ground: The Downing of a New Strategic Era Requires New U.S. Technologies to Defend Against a Nuclear Strike by Lt. Gen. James A Abrahamson --- Weapons of Space: Blasting Enemy Missiles Out of Space Isn't Confined to Video Games and Penny Arcades by Angelo M Codevilla -- Tsar Wars: Our Future?: Unless We do Some Smart Things in Space Quickly, the Soviets Will Dominate Space by the Mid-1990s by Thomas Krebs -- The Peaceful Users of Space: Technologies Resulting from Space Exploration May Be Some of America's Greatest Gifts to Mankind by Craig Covault -- Shrapnel in the Heart: "I'll Always Be There in the Still of the Night . . ." and Other Letters Placed at the Vietnam Memorial by Laura Palmer -- Washington Conference Report: Verification Is the Key to the INF Treaty, President Reagan Tells Legionnaires -- Big Issues: Should Congress Enact Laws to Prohibit AIDS Discrimination -- Dateline Washington -- Letters -- Veterans Update -- Legion News Briefs -- Veterans Alert -- Parting Shots