Word: clawing
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...Your Jan. 10 article "The Pistol and the Claw" raises some interesting questions. Will we learn in time that those who live by the sword inevitably perish by it ? An alternative was suggested several thousand years ago, namely, "doing unto others as we would have them do unto us." Impractical? May be so, but it works. The hardest of criminals will respond favorably to such treatment when genuine and done in the absence of a "big stick" behind one's back...
...quest of the U.S. military for tactical devices to implement the "claw" policy resembles rather closely the search of the fabled scientist for a universal solvent...
...general political situation can be foreseen, and the technological possibilities are more or less known. Between them, they suggest some of the likely elements in the future development of the claw...
...create atom-scourged "beachheads" up to 70 miles inland. Having landed, some of the troops would secure supply and communications lines by moving back to the real beaches through "atomic sanitized corridors." Ground Power. The U.S. Army is sure to have a role in the development of the claw. But ground-war planners have had less success than their Air and Navy colleagues in grouping their ideas around a central definition of the Army's responsibility in the wars of tomorrow. Lacking a clear mission, Army planners have been notably unable to convince the budgeteers...
...breakthrough into new military ideas was long overdue. In the last decade the U.S. spent $327 billions on defense, but had no military doctrine for anything short of World War III. The age of the double deterrent, of the pistol and the claw, is not a pretty prospect. But it is a prospect-and one around which a rational military policy can be built...