Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Show. With his customary skill, Senate Majority Leader Johnson has placed himself directly on top of the session's key issue. As chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, he will sit as prosecutor and judge while the civilian and military brass from the Pentagon is summoned up to the Hill and cross-examined on U.S. defense shortfalls. The committee's report will have a strong impact on what Congress does about defense. Working closely with Texas' Johnson in the defense area will be the chairmen of the House and Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittees, Texas' Representative George...
...office of the Secretary of Defense itself an unwieldy, sprawling compromise of an organization, with nine assistant secretaries, about 300 committees and 2,151 staffers. Far from working toward unification of forces, the Defense Secretary's office has virtually become a fourth service. It sits uneasily atop the civilian hierarchies of the Army, Navy and Air Force, with the power of military decision farther and farther removed from trained military men. Results: wasted money, duplicated effort, lost time and, above all, chronic indecision...
...same time, to strengthen the lines of civilian control, the Secretary of Defense would be the final Pentagon authority in all matters, especially including administration of the services, which he must now share with the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those Secretaries would be replaced by Under Secretaries of Defense, one for each service, whose responsibilities would lie within the Department of Defense instead of with the separate branches...
...under a general staff system. (The high-morale U.S. Marine Corps has been a part of the Navy since its founding in 1775.) While it is true that an oversimplified doctrinaire war plan could be disastrous, the advocates argue that a war plan carefully thought through, carefully approved by civilians both in Pentagon and Congress, would take maximum advantage of the strength of all the services and of the U.S. economy. As for the man on horseback, say general staff advocates, if U.S. institutions are that weak, then the nation is in worse trouble than it ever reckoned. A career...
...personnel and their families. Said he: "I came out here because of a special kind of sickness, one that afflicts the aged and the young-homesickness. I must acknowledge that after 40 years of wearing a uniform it would be strange if I felt quite as natural with my civilian hat as I did with my military cap. And I want to indulge for just a moment this feeling of homesickness, the fun of going and seeing some of the people of SHAPE [who are] carrying the same mission, doing the same job that all of us started...