Word: bottlenecks
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...Giant Bottleneck. The case against McNamara is easy enough to make on purely emotional grounds. He has angered many senior military officers and legislators in a variety of ways. He strikes his critics as arrogant. He has brought proud service chiefs to heel, smashed old customs and prerogatives, scrapped weapons projects that had many champions, reduced Congress' influence in military affairs and eliminated or cut back 852 military installations...
...next few months, the U.S. public can hardly demand major victories-at least until a serious supply bottleneck is broken and Westmore land gets the extra combat divisions he has been pleading for. But as the U.S. troop level climbs toward 400,000 men, as the price of war begins to crimp Great Society programs and boost taxes, Americans may find it harder than ever to accept the long war predicted by the Administration. Military men talk in terms of years, and though other officials insist that "something will give" long before that, few would risk curtailing the U.S. buildup...
...Rats & Spray. The bottleneck has not yet curtailed any major U.S. action in Viet Nam, but it has, as one officer puts it, "kept us in essentially a defensive position." At the 1st Air Cav's giant enclave at An Khe, Jeeps and trucks are only driven when absolutely necessary. The division is short of gas, while two huge ocean-going tankers loll in the Saigon River waiting to be unloaded. Last month the marines at Danang ran out of mosquito spray in the midst of a malarial epidemic that has forced the evacuation of 800 infected servicemen...
...American fighting men. Between the U.S. and its forces in the field lies a transport pipeline some 9,000 miles long. It flows freely until it hits the ports and beaches of South Viet Nam, where a dearth of deep-water piers, tugs, lighters and warehousing has created a bottleneck of giant and dangerous proportions...
...main obstacle to even faster work is the same delays in shipping and unloading that have caused a logistics bottleneck for the armed forces. Because there are just not enough ports and docks, long-awaited bulldozers, dump trucks or stone crushers are often delayed. To ease the bottleneck, the combine has set up an advance staging area at Poro Point on Luzon in the Philippines, is building three additional depots in Viet Nam. Except for such basics as rock, sand and gravel, most of the construction material must be shipped from the U.S. Though native lumber is abundantly available...