Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the U.S. debate over the arms question is taking on national proportions, spurred largely by the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) project called Sentinel. Until 1967, McNamara resisted pressure from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to go ahead with this type of weapon. Many scientists and civilian planners argued that it was always easier and cheaper for the adversary to improve his offensive equipment by using decoys, multiple warheads and other devices, than it was for the other side to build an adequate defense. It thus seemed wiser to continue to improve the U.S. offensive capability, thereby perpetuating what...
...emotional wrench of leaving the priesthood were not enough, most former Roman Catholic priests face the harrowing task of finding a new job. Often trained mostly in theology, ex-priests hardly have the ideal background for civilian careers. Even so, a survey conducted by The Gallagher Presidents' Report shows that most of the 231 former priests interviewed had found work within two months. Half of the priests, reported the weekly newsletter for executives, went to work in the business world. They became salesmen, management trainees, office managers, systems engineers, journalists, admen, economists and personnel directors. Most of the others...
Between the wars, the United States kept the ROTC-trained reservist as the key figure in the nation's defenses, maintaining the tradition of the civilian soldier dating back to the Minute-men of 1775. But the ROTC system was not merely romantic; it was also reasonably successful. When war came in 1941, a reserve of over 56,000 ROTC graduates was available for active duty to permit a more rapid mobilization of the nation...
...fact behind the growing opposition to ROTC is the increasingly inescapable realization that ROTC now wants to recruit college students for mainly military careers. The implication of this is that the presence of ROTC can no longer be justified by the old arguments about the need to maintain a civilian army. As the emphasis of ROTC shifts from training reserves to recruiting career officers, the view that ROTC "civilianizes" the military--the rationale by which educators have long justified their uneasy relationship with the armed service--becomes untenable...
...universities, it is an arrangement troubled wtih contradiction and compromise. While the University has ostensibly integrated ROTC into its administrative structure, the ROTC departments are necessarily unable to adhere to the standards and norms of Harvard -- and indeed, of civilian higher education in general...