Word: coequality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shotting at the Army (and vice versa) for over a year, seemed close to a more or less friendly settlement. The Army & Navy themselves had settled some disputed points, the President had resolved three of the knottiest: he had ruled in favor of a single defense department, three coequal branches, and a Marine Corps under the Navy (TIME, June 24). The one issue on which the Navy had continued to buck its Commander in Chief was his order that all land-based aviation (including anti-submarine patrol) be put under the proposed new independent Air Force...
...topmost Government level, the Navy had offered the Eberstadt plan (for Army, Navy and Air Departments, all tied in at the top by a National Security Council). The Army had won President Truman's backing for outright merger with the Air Forces as a third and coequal branch. The Navy recognized that in any case there was virtue in getting together on the lowest level-down where procurement, recruiting, training and transport services overlapped...
Navy Secretary Forrestal has indicated that one way or another a compromise could be reached on unification of command. But on creation of an air department coequal with War and Navy-"I am not yet prepared to agree." Why not? Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz bluntly answered that question: the Navy "either gradually or at once [would] become a secondary service...
...consummation of a treaty, I hope that the next trend of public opinion will recognize that under our own theory nations are coequal, and therefore any treaty must represent compromise...
Marshal Rommel reportedly asked for Jürgen von Arnim as coequal commander in Tunisia. The two had worked together on tank tactics through the years. In the early days of the reconstituted Wehrmacht, Arnim commanded the First Panzer Regiment. Later he was shifted back to infantry, which he commanded in Poland. He helped develop the cooperation of tanks and infantry within armored di visions, and in hilly Tunisian terrain where the uses of tanks are limited, his expertness in such liaison will be valuable...