Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief told newsmen "my principal military consultants" will be Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and two retired officers who held that job previously--Adm. Arthur W. Radford and Gen. Omar Bradley. McElroy said they have agreed to help him. Other consultants will represent civilian viewpoints, but McElroy said he isn't ready to name them...
...precariously balanced budget cuts and skimps on civilian and even some military items to put more money into missiles and nuclear weapons and vehicles, supersonic planes, greater foreign aid and a stepped-up "effort on military satellites and other outer space vehicles...
Moreover, Charlie Wilson's idea of improving Pentagon organization was to bring in more civilian officials, some plain incompetent, few with much real military knowledge. While the professional military men, with all their parochial bickering, are far from blameless, it is nonetheless true that the major mistakes of Wilson's day were made by civilians. It was civilian mismanagement of funds last year that forced procurement cutbacks and threatened to wreck the nation's airframe industry. It was a civilian decision that left the Strategic Air Command with a majority of its force grounded for lack...
...measure-in the ballistic missile program. He restored $170 million for research and development, released $400 million, mostly for Air Force procurement (another $300 million is to be released in the second half of fiscal 1958). It seemed unbelievable to McElroy that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the civilian secretaries were so split that the U.S. has no overall war plan under which service roles and missions are definitely parceled out. He made it perfectly clear that they had better get together or some changes would be made...
...their homes and their businesses, hoping that the government would impose moderation on the rampaging nationalists. Instead, the government had only made the seizures orderly, making clear that there was no hope of a reversal. On New Year's Day the new-standardized team of military men, civilian supervisors and union representatives took over the management of Bank Indonesia, and the bank's 24 senior Dutch officials were summarily dismissed. With that, many another Dutchman started packing...