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The article reports on developments of the talks between U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev regarding the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). Accordingly, Kissinger's meeting with Brezhnev intends to wrap up broad agreements between U.S. President Gerald Ford and the Russian leader at Vladivostok, Russia to limit the long-range missiles and bombers. However, Kissinger has returned to the U.S. with proposed compromises and unsettled issues. It adds that critic Richard Perle has commented that Kissinger gave everything away.

The article discusses two reports published within the issue including one by Joseph Cane on the topics concerning the U.S. Department of Defense and another one by Frank Merrick on the military forces of Russia.