This period starts with the overwhelming defeat of Iraq by the United States. The American quit development of advanced conventional weapons and there deployment were a shock to most other nations including American allies and the Soviet Union. The new weapons included rail-guns projectiles from arsenal submarines in the Persian Gulf and long range, sub orbital, hypersonic bombers. As well as the Ithacus rockets which gave the American the ability to put a huge land force anywhere on the Earth in a matter of hours. These weapons caused a huge stir in the Soviet Union and with Mikhail Gorbachev, who had been a strong supporter of the reduction of the Soviet budget going back twenty years.
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