Le premier, et le plus important, je pense, fut de diminuer les budgets consacrés à la défense car les menaces extérieures ne correspondaient plus à celles qui prévalaient durant la période de la guerre froide, et conséquemment, ne nécessitaient plus la mobilisation d'autant de ressources que par le passé.
First, the most important measure in my view was to reduce the defence budgets; since exterior threats were no longer comparable to those that prevailed during the cold war, defence did not require as many resources as it did in the past.