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7. Possible naval and air exercises and deployments could include:
a. Deployment of elements of the Second Fleet to war stations, exercising from British ports and in the Norwegian Sea. If this movement were carried out during July or August, and compensating adjustments made in normal movements of other fleet units, no significant additional costs are foreseen.
b. Deployment of a tactical fighter force of five squadrons to Europe, at an estimated cost of $2,078,000 for a 21-day exercise.
8. It should be noted that the above described activities are possible actions which might be employed in an effort short of war to deter the Soviets from initiating a Berlin crisis. These actions alone would not materially improve the US capability to engage either the GDR or Soviet Bloc forces in a non-nuclear war, but in conjunction with other military and non-military measures world-wide could have some deterrent effect.
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