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This past June CBS-TV News broadcast "an unprecedented documentary project, more ambitious than any CBS News has undertaken," entitled The Defense of the United States. The message was clear: it is Reagan's build-up that prompted CBS's "questions."

About the Authors

Joshua Muravchik is a research associate at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. His articles in COMMENTARY include “Turnabout in the Senate” (November 1980) and “Kennedy's Foreign Policy: What the Record Shows” (December 1979). John E. Haynes, who holds a doctorate in American history, is a former associate staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.