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...strategic bombers, many of which are equipped with air-to-surface and decoy missiles to help them reach almost any target. In the past three years we have raised the number of combat-ready divisions by 45%. They can be moved swiftly around the world by an airlift capacity which has increased 75%. We, and our NATO allies, now have 5,000,000 men under arms. In every area of national strength, America today is stronger than it has ever been before. It is stronger than the combined might of all the nations in the history of the world...
...Kaiser's war? Ancient history. The Israeli thing, and beautiful deep-chested broads with big bandoleers standing ankle-deep in the dirt of the kibbutzim? Ah, there's a bestselling idea. Too bad, did that one too. What's left? Got it! Berlin and the airlift. It has flyers and wild blue yonders, and conflict with the Russkies, and a small band of far-seeing Army officers, and fräuleins, and bad Germans and maybe a few good ones this time...
Adams has no time to be anything but succinct. Right now he is Commander in Chief of Strike Command (CINCSTRIKE), the unified command that welds Army combat troops and Air Force airlift and fighter planes into a highly mobile quick-assault force. He is Commander in Chief of U.S. forces in an area covering one-third of the earth's land surface, including some 70 nations of the Middle East, Africa south of the Sahara, and Southern Asia (USCINCMEAFSA). In his spare time, he is directing the evaluation of a controversial Army air assault division with which the Army...
...formal approval from its stockholders to become just plain Monsanto Co. Fairbanks Whitney, hoping to get an image with a bang from its gunmaking subsidiary, plans to rename itself Colt Industries. Riddle-Airlines, whose name has long been just that to many people, is about to switch to Airlift International Inc. Olin Mathieson is asking customers to "please, call us by our first name," and the onetime General Shoe Co. is nailing down its new name with a "Do You Know Genesco?" advertising campaign...
...adviser to Military Governor Lucius Clay, was summoned with his boss to Washington to discuss the blockade. It consisted at that time of a wooden pole suspended across the highway at Helmstedt-and removable, Murphy was convinced, by a token show of force. The decision to launch the Berlin airlift seemed to him a serious mistake. The dramatic success of the airlift obscured the reality: that the U.S. had meekly surrendered its claims for "surface-level access." He did not resign, but he adds that he would feel better today about the episode...