https://books.google.com/books?id=J...&q=Reagan "able archer" "scaled back"&f=false
Reagan also deserves credit for slightly reducing the size of the poker raise in the Able Archer military exercise which was performed Nov. 2-11, '83. This exercise was performed pretty much every year, but in 1983 they were also going to involve heads of states in the command sequence.
This source talks about the role of National Security Advisor Bob McFarlane. But I've read elsewhere that when McFarlane went to President Reagan with his concerns, Reagan easily and comfortably made an executive decision, okay, we're not going to do that part, referring to his own role in the exercise.
Reagan also deserves credit for slightly reducing the size of the poker raise in the Able Archer military exercise which was performed Nov. 2-11, '83. This exercise was performed pretty much every year, but in 1983 they were also going to involve heads of states in the command sequence.
This source talks about the role of National Security Advisor Bob McFarlane. But I've read elsewhere that when McFarlane went to President Reagan with his concerns, Reagan easily and comfortably made an executive decision, okay, we're not going to do that part, referring to his own role in the exercise.
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