Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Schlesinger's evidence of Soviet military preparations left some intelligence experts unconvinced. They described it as "flimsy," "inconclusive" and "not materially different from what was going on throughout the crisis." For example, they said that the Soviet airborne units had been on and off alert ever since the end of the war's first week and that they had always had their own aircraft for transport...
...Russian confrontation as one that could still go either way. Yet Nixon in his press conference left the impression that he and Brezhnev had resolved the crisis during the night before Kissinger's appearance. In fact, soon after Kissinger had finished outlining the reasons for the U.S. alert, the Soviets approved a Security Council resolution for a U.N. force to police the ceasefire. Thus, Kissinger could be accused of being unduly alarmist in his televised appearance, if indeed he knew by then that the Russians had agreed to back down...
...question that can properly be asked is whether a worldwide alert, with all the inevitable anxieties that attended it, was necessary. In view of the Brezhnev letter, obviously some response seemed called for. While Lyndon Johnson got away with calling the Soviet bluff, Nixon might not have. And Nixon's policy did work, in the sense that the Russians did not send troops to the Middle East. That pragmatic measure does not, however, rule out the possibility that perhaps some less dramatic action might have ended the crisis, particularly if Brezhnev and Nixon understand each other as well...
...Last week's alert was what the Pentagon calls "Defcon 3" for Defense Condition Three, in which troops report to barracks for possible movement and stand by for action. Under Defcon 2 they would proceed to staging areas. In Defcon 1 they would be deployed and engaged...
...since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The next day the Soviet Union said that was nonsense. What is it that prevents the President from giving the nation more details, details certainly known to the Russians? A day earlier Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained that the order to alert American troops came after long deliberation in a National Security Council meeting at 3 a.m. The President said that he had given the order shortly after midnight. A small thing, perhaps, but why can't the Americans be told the complete story of these actions that jar their lives...