At a meeting in US , General Colin L. Powell , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , endorsed the East Bloc's move toward a more defensive military posture and reassured his Warsaw Pact (WP) counterparts that the Vienna and its the Joint Chiefs of Staff allies will not launch an offensive military operation against Eastern Europe . At a meeting in Vienna, Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cited "initial evidence" that the Warsaw Pact is restructuring its forces in line with new defensive military doctrines in the wake of the Cold War. However, he defended US military initiatives that have introduced to Europe new, long-range weapons designed to attack Soviet reinforcement forces for WP first -wave attack. There is intelligence information that the Soviet still have large supplies of spare weapons parts and ammunition near the East-West border available for an offensive operation.
At a meeting in US , General Colin L. Powell , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , endorsed the East Bloc's move toward a more defensive military posture and reassured his Warsaw Pact (WP) counterparts that the Vienna and its the Joint Chiefs of Staff allies will not launch an offensive military operation against Eastern Europe . However, he defended US military initiatives that have introduced to Europe new, long-range weapons designed to attack Soviet reinforcement forces for WP first -wave attack. There is intelligence information that the Soviet still have large supplies of spare weapons parts and ammunition near the East-West border available for an offensive operation.