For through real glasnost, national security and military policies will no longer be the purview of the few but the responsibility of the many. At a meeting in Vienna, General Colin 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 US and its NATO allies will not launch an offensive military operation against Eastern Europe. The Polish government has been pushing for years to join NATO, but it is still waiting on Washington to approve membership. There is intelligence information that the Soviets still have large supplies of spare weapons parts and ammunition near the East-West border available for an offensive operation.
At a meeting in Vienna, General Colin 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 US and its NATO allies will not launch an offensive military operation against Eastern Europe. The Polish government has been pushing for years to join NATO, but it is still waiting on Washington to approve membership. There is intelligence information that the Soviets still have large supplies of spare weapons parts and ammunition near the East-West border available for an offensive operation.