Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon and Commerce Department officials, for example, aid sales teams from U.S. arms manufacturers at the biennial Paris Air Show, where hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons business is transacted. Until recently, France's top arms salesman was Air Force General Hugues de 1'Estoile who, dressed in civilian clothes, trotted the globe seeking customers. Usually, however, it is the military attache, stationed in nearly every embassy around the world, who spots a potential customer and makes preliminary contacts. Having ingratiated himself with senior officers of the host country's armed forces, the attache might gradually convince them that...
...forces of countries round the world. But with shrinking U.S. force levels and the advent of the volunteer army, U.S. soldiers have become too scarce and expensive to use for such purposes. Thus three years ago, the Pentagon decided that in the future, wherever possible, it would hire civilian contractors to train friendly foreign armies in the Middle East who asked for such aid and could pay for it. The policy was an extension of the common practice of U.S. manufacturers of military hardware sold abroad; they send their civilian technicians to train the purchasing countries...
...better equipped regular army of 36,000. In March 1973, the Saudis and the Pentagon agreed to pursue a deal, and that month the State Department sent a memorandum of understanding to the Senate and House foreign affairs committees reporting the arrangement and advising Congress that civilian contractors would be used in part of the package...
...summer of 1973, a 19-man U.S. military team went to Saudi Arabia to survey exactly what would be needed. After both sides agreed on a deal in October, the Pentagon invited bids on the various components that it felt civilian firms could handle. The U.S. Government felt it could more efficiently manage some parts of the $335 million enterprise itself. Thus the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was given the $62 million job of building modern barracks for the Saudi guard. But the Cadillac Gage Co. was given a civilian contract to build armored cars for Faisal...
...Juan Velasco Alvarado likes to put it, had two pillars of support. One was the armed forces. The other was "the immense majority of Peruvians that have had little or nothing to do with the direction of the country in the past"-in other words, the majority of the civilian population. Last week a surprisingly varied segment of that population seemed to break ranks with the revolution, plunging Peru into its worst outbreak of violence since the military seized power six years...