Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airlift capability...
...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...
Uris piles up countless petty errors of fact, even of grammar ("It's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing" is another Uris pronouncement). The airlift and the gutty Berliners deserve a better chronicler...
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...