Given this sorry track record, I am very leery of commitments now being offered that enforcement will improve if only the COCOM list is shortened.

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Some will argue that the United States must accommodate its allies, dispensing with bits and pieces of the COCOM list or proscribed destinations to stave off pressure to dismantle the entire multilateral export control regime.

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Incredible as it may seem, the Joint Chiefs of Staff evidently were ignorant of these potential contributions when a study they performed recommended that controls on such technologies (identified in the attachments by their COCOM "International List" or IL designator) be eased or eliminated.

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