Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more sensitive to the subtle shifts in East-West relations than any other people in Europe. The least concession to Russia brings suspicions of a sellout. Hence West Germany's anguish last week at the transatlantic reports that the U.S. might trim down some of the six combat divisions on the Continent. SENSATIONAL U.S. PLAN WITH DRAWAL OF COMBAT TROOPS, shrieked Frankfurt's Abendpost. Asked Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung: THIS QUESTION CONCERNS US ALL: HOW MANY AMERICANS REMAIN IN GERMANY...
...cost of maintaining the U.S. Seventh Army in Germany, with its five combat divisions plus huge additional air and ground support groups, runs into hundreds of millions of dollars a year. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has long been convinced that a substantial reduction of this force can produce big savings at no cost to U.S'. power on the Continent...
...European combat troops will henceforth move direct to Bremerhaven, the big North German seaport. Recently, the Pentagon announced that 5,400 members of the 4th Logistical Command, in France, will be brought home...
Only the most nervous will object to the U.S.'s trimming the fat off its European forces and withdrawing men who can be replaced by technology. But the argument will continue whether it would be safe also to withdraw many combat troops-perhaps even most, as Ike is suggesting...
...spending will be reduced proportionately if combat troops are removed from German soil...