of the inspection function of general disarmament throughout the world as only
between two and three percent of current military expenditures. Both types of
plan tend to deal with the anticipated problem of economic reinvestment only in
the aggregate. We have seen no proposed disarmament sequence that correlates
the phasing out of specific kinds of military spending with specific new forms
of substitute spending.
Without examining disarmament scenarios in greater detail, we may
characterize them with these general comments:
Given genuine agreement of intent among the great powers, the scheduling of
arms control and elimination presents no inherently insurmountable procedural
problems. Any of several proposed sequences might serve as the basis for
multilateral agreement or for the first step in unilateral arms reduction.
No major power can proceed with such a program, however, until it has
developed an economic conversion plan fully integrated with each phase of
disarmament. No such plan has yet been developed in the United States.
Furthermore, disarmament scenarios, like proposals for economic conversion,
make no allowance for the non-military functions of war in modern societies,
and offer no surrogate for these necessary functions. One partial exception is a
proposal for the "unarmed forces of the United States," which we will consider
in section 6.
between two and three percent of current military expenditures. Both types of
plan tend to deal with the anticipated problem of economic reinvestment only in
the aggregate. We have seen no proposed disarmament sequence that correlates
the phasing out of specific kinds of military spending with specific new forms
of substitute spending.
Without examining disarmament scenarios in greater detail, we may
characterize them with these general comments:
Given genuine agreement of intent among the great powers, the scheduling of
arms control and elimination presents no inherently insurmountable procedural
problems. Any of several proposed sequences might serve as the basis for
multilateral agreement or for the first step in unilateral arms reduction.
No major power can proceed with such a program, however, until it has
developed an economic conversion plan fully integrated with each phase of
disarmament. No such plan has yet been developed in the United States.
Furthermore, disarmament scenarios, like proposals for economic conversion,
make no allowance for the non-military functions of war in modern societies,
and offer no surrogate for these necessary functions. One partial exception is a
proposal for the "unarmed forces of the United States," which we will consider
in section 6.
