Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years of service, Wheeler has had only five months' combat duty, as a division chief of staff in Europe in World War II. But in his steady climb as a staffman, he caught the eye of Maxwell Taylor and later of John F. Kennedy, whom he was assigned to brief on military matters in the 1960 campaign. Named Army Chief of Staff in 1962, he set about revitalizing the Army along the lines of Taylor's doctrine of "flexible" response rather than overwhelming reliance on massive nuclear retaliation. During Wheeler's two-year tenure as Chief...
...slight, sandy-haired man, Johnson was a lieutenant colonel with the 57th Infantry (Philippine Scouts) when the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941. He was captured, endured the infamous Bataan death march, survived three years in Japanese prison camps. In Korea in 1950, he took command of a combat infantry battalion, fought through the bloody defense of the Pusan perimeter and later was named a regimental commander. Back in the U.S., Johnson became commandant of the Army's elite Command and General Staff College. There he coined a slogan, "Challenge the Assertion"-an attitude that has since...
Lieut. General Creighton W. Abrams, 49, new Army Vice Chief of Staff, replaces retiring General Barksdale Hamlett. From the moment the 37th tank battalion, which he commanded, rolled into action in Normandy in July 1944, "Abe" Abrams showed the feel and flair of a born combat man. Leading the sweep of General George Patton's Third Army across Europe, he would lean from his Sherman tank, chomping on a huge cigar, and rally his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams: "I like to get out on the point where there's nothing...
...happened often enough during the last 21 years, when General Paul D. Harkins had the difficult and troublesome post of U.S. military commander in Viet Nam. Last week Harkins, 60, left for home and retirement. His successor: Lieut. General William Childs Westmoreland, 50, West Point graduate ('36) and combat veteran of World War II and Korea. Back from a trip to Malaya, where he hopefully studied techniques the British used to win the twelve-year Malayan anti-Communist struggle, Westmoreland insisted cautiously that the job in Viet Nam could be done with "spirit, patience, and techniques seldom before experienced...
...Stage Assault. The army started planning Tiro Fijo's downfall months ago. Combat units were divided into small, tightly organized teams, given extensive training in anti-guerrilla warfare. To backstop the military campaign, new roads, schools and other civic-action projects were planned to draw the peasants closer to the government. The offensive began four weeks ago as units of five battalions-totaling 3,500 men-poured into Marquetalia...