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  Encyclopedia: Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)
Harold Brown (born September 19, 1927), American scientist, was U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981 in the cabinet of President Jimmy Carter.
Brown adhered to the principle of "essential equivalence" in the nuclear competition with the Soviet Union.
Brown championed the treaties through a difficult fight to gain Senate approval (secured in March and April 1978), insisting that they were both advantageous to the United States and essential to the canal's future operation and security.
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 Harold Brown
Brown was Secretary of Defense in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1981.
Harold Brown was the Director of Defense Research and Engineering during the Kennedy Administration.
Secretary of Energy Schlesinger [Defense Secretary in the previous administration, Ford's], appearing on a rival network, reiterated the same militaristic theme.
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 Encyclopedia: Donald Rumsfeld
Seal of the United States Department of Defense The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is appointed by the President with the approval of the Senate, and is a member of the Cabinet.
From January 1997 until being sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense in January 2001, Rumsfeld served as Chairman of Gilead Sciences, Inc. He was also chair of the RAND Corporation.
As Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld has come under fire from critics who argue that his decision to detain alleged-enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay is a violation of the Geneva Convention and runs counter to American legal traditions.
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 Nine On Defense Policy Board Have Ties To Contractors
Defense companies are awarded contracts for numerous reasons; there is nothing to indicate that serving on the Defense Policy Board confers a decisive advantage to firms with which a member is associated.
Harold Brown, a former Secretary of Defense under President Jimmy Carter, and James Schlesinger, who has served as CIA director, defense secretary and energy secretary in the Carter and Nixon administrations, are two others that have ties to defense contractors.
Brown, a partner of Warburg Pincus LLC, is a board member of Philip Morris Companies and a trustee of the Rand Corporation, which respectively had contracts worth $146 million and $83 million in 2002.
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 Harold Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harold P. Brown, inventor of the electric chair, a form of capital punishment used in the United States as a predecessor of the lethal injection.
Harold Brown, the U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Jimmy Carter
Harold Brown, a member of the group War
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 SecDef Histories - Harold Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
President Carter's choice as secretary of defense, Harold Brown, came to office with imposing academic credentials and a wealth of experience in national security affairs.
For the sea leg of the triad, Brown accelerated development of the larger Trident nuclear submarine and carried forward the conversion of Poseidon submarines to a fully MlRVed missile capability.
To implement the last item, NATO defense and foreign ministers decided in December 1979 to respond to the Soviet deployment of new theater nuclear weapons-the SS-20 missile and the Backfire bomber-by placing 108 Pershing II missiles and 464 ground launched cruise missiles (GLCMs) in several Western European countries beginning in December 1983.
www.defenselink.mil /specials/secdef_histories/bios/brown.htm   (2248 words)

  
 Decoy defense letter to Harold Brown Jul 21/78   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A variation on this defense might be to have no balloons until an attack was on its way, then inflate balloons in the path of the incoming missile which simulated prominant features of the real target area.
Of course this defense would be more effective the fewer the geographical features that were too prominent to mask or simulate: a prairie or desert setting would be good; an ocean target, such as an oil-well platform, with balloons stored and released from the ocean floor, but anchored when at the surface, might be considered.
The balloons I have in mind are modelled after rapidly-inflating ones such as the "air bags" used to prevent injury in automobiles which inflate in 1/20 sec, or those tested as decoys against Syrian SAMs by the Israeli air force in April, 1974.
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 Harold Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harold P. Brown - invented the electric chair
Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) - Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Defense
Harold Brown (music) - a member of the group War
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 Lincoln Lab receives national honor at 50th anniversary event - MIT News Office
According to the citation by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, "The Laboratory's numerous contributions to the development of critical defense capabilities enhanced the nation's security posture and provided United States forces a decisive advantage.
Brown, a former member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, director of defense research and engineering in the Department of Defense and Secretary of the Air Force, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 and the Fermi Award in 1993.
Brown listed the technological advances which, over the past 50 years, have dramatically increased our accuracy at seeking out and destroying military targets.
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 RAND Review | Summer 2005 | Perspectives: Voices of Experience
Chief among the long-term dangers faced by America, according to the group, are the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the ballooning national deficit, a scarcity of diplomacy to buttress defense policy, and an estrangement of America from international institutions.
Robert McNamara, defense secretary for Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and Harold Brown, defense secretary for President Jimmy Carter, share a moment of levity during a mostly weighty conversation.
However, they doubted whether the defense department could bring the proper perspective to the war or could even be the proper place to guide national thinking about such a war.
www.rand.org /publications/randreview/issues/summer2005/perspect.html   (2518 words)

  
 National Review: Defense cubed - use of brilliant pebbles to protect command, control and communication network during ...
Defense planners in the Reagan Administration spent nearly $20 billion trying to remedy the situation, but experts say the network still has no chance of surviving an all-out attack.
The defense becomes a swarm of little satellites-they have been likened to killer bees ready to go into action on any sign of a missile attack against the U.S. or its allies.
The result is an enormous reduction in the cost of the space defense, and a reduction in the cost of the whole system-space plus ground-from $69 billion to $50 billion.
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 HAROLD BROWN (SECRETARY OF DEFENSE) STYLES, FASHION AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He had previously served in the Lyndon_Johnson administration as U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and Secretary_of_the_Air_Force.
In one of his first speeches after leaving office, "'Managing' the Defense Department-Why It Can't Be Done," at the University_of_Michigan in March 1981, he observed:
In May 1978 the NATO heads of government endorsed a Long_Term_Defense_Program that included 10 priority categories: enhanced readiness; rapid reinforcement; stronger European reserve forces; improvements in maritime capabilities; integrated air defenses; effective command, control, and communications; electronic_warfare; rationalized procedures for armaments collaboration; logistics co-ordination and increased war reserves; and theater nuclear modernization.
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 Advisory board pushing Iraq attack
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, they add, has purged all but four of the previous board members and replaced them with a group of unabashed Iraq hawks, changing an advisory panel into a virtual war council.
The board was formed during the Reagan presidency to "serve the public interest by providing the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Policy with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning major matters of defense policy," according to its charter.
The board's roster is drawn from the heart of the conservative defense establishment: Five board members served under President Richard Nixon, six in the Reagan administration and four under Bush's father.
www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2002/020818-iraq1.htm   (1641 words)

  
 400. Harold Brown (1927-). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989
And they increased their defense expenditures as we decreased ours.
secretary of defense, testimony, January 31, 1979.—Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980, hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, 96th Congress, 1st session, p.
More succinctly, Brown noted, “Soviet spending has shown no response to U.S. restraint—when we build they build; when we cut they build,” in a statement before a joint meeting of the House and Senate Budget Committees in early 1979 regarding the fiscal 1980 budget.
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 No Defense for Missile Defense
President Reagan similarly declared that "strategic defenses would strengthen the credibility of the U.S. extended deterrence," which is strategic speak for the use of nuclear weapons to deter enemies outside the United States.
As former Defense Secretary Harold Brown once said, "I have always been concerned about massive ABM systems because I have always felt there was some possibility that some clever briefer could delude a political decision-maker into thinking that they were going to work."
But abandoning the ABM treaty in the faith that missile defenses are practical may well lead one of his successors to harbor such fanciful notions.
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 DefenseLINK News: Independent Review Panel Meets
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appointed the Panel May 12 to review current and completed inquiries of DoD detention operations.
Panel members are James R. Schlesinger, former secretary of defense and energy; Harold Brown, former secretary of defense; former U.S. Rep. Tillie K. Fowler; and retired Air Force Gen. Charles A Horner.
"Secretary Rumsfeld has entrusted us with this important work, and we are dedicated to conducting a fair and transparent review of current and past investigations," Schlesinger said.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/05/mil-040521-afps03.htm   (335 words)

  
 Soviet-United States Civil Defense: tipping the strategic scale?
There are several arguments against widespread implementation of civil defense measures, such as the primacy of offensive technology, warning sensitivity, problems of evacuation, and the social/political impact.
Air defenses are sufficient solely to ensure' the sovereignty of peacetime airspace.
Brown forecast a satisfactory postattack balance into the mid-1980s through development and deployment of the airlaunched cruise missile coupled with the B-52 and existing or programmed forces (excluding the B-1 and the M-X).
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 Former defense secretary: military policy did not promote abuse
Schlesinger, who was appointed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to lead the independent panel that included former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, has had full Defense Department cooperation as part of its investigation into the abuse scandal.
As you know, Secretary Rumsfeld established the Panel to provide an independent and objective assessment of what had gone wrong in our detention operations, to review the other DoD [Department of Defense] investigations that were underway for gaps, and to provide any recommendations and additional observations that were required.
In that effort, we have received the full cooperation of the Department of Defense, which is already moving ahead in numerous areas with adjustments and reforms to prevent a recurrence.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Brown, G to I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brown, Garry — of Austin, Travis County, Tex. Democrat.
Brown, Gavin — of Clermont, Lake County, Fla. Democrat.
Brown, Herman — of Austin, Travis County, Tex. Democrat.
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 Partisan Defense? (washingtonpost.com)
They say the moves are part of the normal turnover associated with new administrations, and specifically reflect Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's desire to be advised less by academics and more by veteran policymakers.
The case of Miller, formerly the Pentagon's top lawyer, especially raised eyebrows because she was named to the Defense Science Board only a year earlier, while some people have served on it for decades.
There are a few Democrats, most notably Harold Brown, defense secretary in the Carter administration, and former House speaker Thomas S. Foley (Wash.).
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A4547-2002Apr17?language%3Dprinter   (1036 words)

  
 DoD News: Press Conference with Members of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At the request of the Secretary of Defense, this panel was asked to provide their objective findings and recommendations regarding the allegations and investigations of abuse at DOD detention facilities.
            But in any event, any Defense establishment should adapt quickly to new conditions as they arise.  And in this case, we were slow, at least in the judgment of the members of this panel, to adapt accordingly after the insurgency started in the summer of 2003.
Secretary, could I ask you just to fill in one of the gaps.  You commented on Secretary Rumsfeld and General Sanchez and the Joint Chiefs.  Could you tell us your observations about the role played by Mr.
www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2004/tr20040824-secdef1221.html   (2703 words)

  
 Harold Brown - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harold Brown - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Harold P. Brown, inventor of the electric chair, a form of capital punishment used in the United States as a predecessor of the fatal injection.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Brown, Harold --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Further studies by the Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter in 1927 and by Harold Spencer Jones (later Sir Harold, Astronomer Royal of England) in 1939 confirmed that had secular and irregular variations.
U.S. flier Harold Charles Gatty was born in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia.
Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. The Board of Education were two of the Supreme Court's historic decisions on civil rights.
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 Report: Abu Ghraib was 'Animal House'
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under fire on August 24, 2004 from a high-level inquiry into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal but a U.S. military judge ruled he did not have to testify at a trial arising from the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
A four-member panel headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger(L) issued a report accusing the chain of command from Rumsfeld down of leadership failures that created conditions for the abuse late last year that sparked anti-American outrage across the world.
Commanders at Abu Ghaib did not "adequately supervise" the actions by the people involved in the abuse, said Schlesinger, who was secretary of defense for Presidents Nixon and Ford.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-08/25/content_368722.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Real History and Corruption at the Pentagon
The agendas for the last three meetings, which were obtained by the Center, show a variety of issues were discussed.
Perle is considered a 'special government employee' and is subject to government ethics prohibition-both regulatory and criminal-on using public office for private gain," Rep. Conyers wrote in the letter obtained by the Center.
Perle, who as chairman of the Defense Policy Board has been a leading advocate of the United States' invasion of Iraq, spoke on Wednesday in a conference call sponsored by Goldman Sachs, in which he advised participants on possible investment opportunities arising from the war.
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 Rome engineer receive Harold Brown Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The award, named for the former secretary of the Air Force and later secretary of defense, recognizes significant achievements in research and development.
It was also used by the Department of Defense Columbia Investigation Support Team to correlate, validate and visualize multiple databases of sensors and related information involving the Feb. 1, 2003, breakup of the space shuttle.
In June 2003, he was honored by the Department of Defense’s counterdrug technology development program office with its John J. Pennella Award, presented annually to recognize individuals whose dedication and performance have made a significant contribution to the counterdrug program.
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 Harold Brown Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 SignOnSanDiego > News > Science -- Symposium at UCSD puts spotlight on Herbert York
Chancellor Robert Dynes and Peter Cowhey, director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, are sponsoring the event to honor York, who is battling leukemia.
There will be three symposium panels, all devoted to York's career, focusing on his contributions to building national defense, the evolution of arms control and the changing role of the university in society.
He has served as director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and as a science adviser to President Eisenhower and was co-founder and chief scientist of the Department of Defense advanced research projects.
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