1.  First, he said, the treaty on conventional forces would likely be thrown overboard.

2.  Meanwhile, its conventional forces are plenty good enough to banish the nuclear option to the realm of the theoretical.

3.  Prior to Sandys the orthodox military priesthood had seen nuclear weapons as being in support of conventional forces.

4.  That would be much more likely if Mr Gorbachev could reduce his conventional forces and weaponry in the Warsaw Pact.

5.  Yet our conventional forces have not made an equivalent leap into the future.

6.  It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter.