Word: bonesteel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though part of the harassment is an effort to distract U.S. attention from South Viet Nam, the bigger reason for North Korea's provocations is to divert its own people's thoughts from their deepening economic troubles. "The Communist actions," says General Charles Bonesteel III, the United Nations and U.S. Eighth Army commander in Korea, "are nasty and vicious, but they amount largely to frustrated impotency...
...strengthened conventional capability has been on for some time, particularly in the Pentagon, where the Army and Air Force have been leaking cascades of "papers," "memos" and rumors in an attempt to outpoint each other. Army conventional-war strategists scored high points last May, when Major General Charles H. Bonesteel III. now special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepared a memo that is the backbone of the new doctrine. Wrote Bonesteel: "Continued primary reliance on massive nuclear retaliation to deter all forms of aggression will limit the United States' strategy to a choice between...