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DED PLATFORM military roles. It would cost $100 billion over a 10-year period, FY 1979-88. Projecting the proposed

FY 1979 shipbuilding budget of $4.7 billion as a base of compari- son, the proposed program would cost an additional $53 billion in naval ship construction and re- lated funding . . . "In terms of direct shipbuild- ing costs alone, this would, at its peak, approximately double cur- rent ship construction budget.

For FY 1979, the Administra- tion requested $4.7 billion for na- val ship construction and conver- sion. The proposed program be- gins at $6.8 billion in FY 1979, and climbs to a maximum of $9.7 billion in FY 1987 (all figures in

FY 1979 dollars) . . ."

To the question of "where is the money to come from?" Sen- ators Hart and Taft responded in this way: "We have already noted that, realistically, the defense budget may not be able signifi- cantly to exceed present levels.

If there is no large overall in- crease over the period of years planned, the money must come from a reordering of priorities based on the realization that the

United States is by nature a sea power, not a land power. We must reallocate our resources from land power to sea power, from expensive land power re- sponsibilities that should be borne by those nations that are essen- tially land powers, to sea power." 10-Year, $100-Billion

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Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.), and former Senator Robert Taft

Jr. (R-Ohio) have joined in draft- ing the 1978 edition of White Pa- per on Defense, entitled "A Mod- ern Military Strategy for the

United States," which calls for "new force structure, which com- bines smaller but more modern ground forces with a more effec- tive Navy."

Strong emphasis is placed on "new challenge to United States maritime security" posed by "the modern Soviet Navy" and role of

U.S. naval power as "a more flexi- ble foreign policy tool than ground forces."

The White Paper presents de- tailed "10-year advanced technol- ogy naval shipbuilding program" which is summarized as follows: "This program includes, among other elements, one additional nuclear-propelled Nimitz-class air- craft carrier, 23 small aircraft carriers, 37 nuclear and conven- tional attack submarines, several types of air-capable escort ships, hydrofoils, surface effect ships, .and merchant ships converted to

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