Letter: Is American defence strategy right for us?
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Professor Trevor Taylor and Paul Cornish ( Letters, 16 July), commenting on my letter (14 July), asks 'if it is Mrs Young's view that we should not defend ourselves if the technology is American'? No: my view is that we should not, without examining it, become part of a quite specific new global military strategy. The US Department of Defense's 'Defense counterproliferation initiative', which my letter had been about, is just that.
Yours faithfully,
ELIZABETH YOUNG
London, W2
24 July
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