US STRATEGIC DEFENCE STRATEGY AND THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN USSR
Journal Title: Impact Strategic - Year 2007, Vol 24, Issue 3
Abstract
In November 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president and initiated an agressive foreign poli- cy, proving the indisputable supremacy and invul- nerability of the USA. During a speech on the 8th of March 1983, he denouced the Soviet empire, considering it "an empire of evil" whose end was iminent , and on the 23th of March he announced the intention to develop a strategic defence against the Soviet rockets. The USSR had become too weak to challenge this potential vulnerability. Thus, the military policy of the american president and his arming programme forced the Soviet Union to suffocate, the Soviets admitting the economic failure and the incapacity to compete with the U.S.A.
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Dorel BUŞE
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