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Unbelieving Boxer. In Why England Slept, it is Kennedy's argument that a democracy challenged by an aggressive dictatorship must prepare for war as if it really means to fight. In a still pertinent analogy Kennedy wrote: "A boxer cannot work himself into proper psychological and physical condition for a fight that he seriously believes will never come off." Kennedy unemotionally traced the misconceptions and the soporifics that lulled England during the prewar years. There was too much reliance upon the moribund League of Nations and the attenuated Disarmament Conference; too little attention was paid to the avowed long...
This leaves adaptability, which is the Reds' stock in trade. All season long, they have come up smiling from minor and major holocausts. And a street fighter can beat a boxer any day in the week...
...objectives. They had even seized and bulldozed the airfield. But they were desperately short of ammunition and food, and under the pressure of Castro's superior fire power and number they were being forced back across the beach. There remained one last chance to make the thing go. Boxer was still on station. The release of a few of its jets simply for air cover should see two landing craft with ammunition and rations safely to the shore...
...White House meeting that night, Bissell made it plain that unless U.S. air power was brought forward, the men on the beach were doomed. He asked that Boxer's planes be brought into the battle. Rusk still would not have this. Several others were also opposed, including the President's personal staffers. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke vouched for the worth of Bissell's proposition. The outcome of the meeting was a singular compromise. Jets from Boxer would provide cover next morning for exactly one hour, long enough for the ships to run into the shore...
Next morning, through an incredible mischance, the B-26s were over Cuba half an hour ahead of schedule. Boxer's jets were still on the flight deck. But Castro's jets were ready. Two of the B-26s were shot down; others were hit and forced to abort. That was the melancholy...