Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would centralize all the procurement, logistics, and research and development programs now operated by each tech service. A new Office of Personnel Operations would take over the assignment and career planning of nearly all officers and enlisted men, functions that the tech services now claim separately for themselves. A Combat Developments Command would be established to develop the doctrines for a versatile modern Army able to fight jungle actions against guerrillas or nuclear battles on fields covering hundreds of miles. After the reform, the Army would resemble the Air Force in its organizational structure...
...year, including a doubling of the delivery rate of Polaris submarines and the production capacity of Minuteman missiles. Because "we have rejected any all-or-nothing posture which would leave no choice but inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation," said Kennedy, the U.S. has also doubled the number of ready combat elements in the Army's Strategic Reserve, increased the active fleet by more than 70 vessels and tactical air forces by nearly a dozen wings, expanded antiguerrilla forces and modernized weapons and ammunition. He promised a further military strengthening of U.S. forces in 1962, but pledged also "a supreme...
Many of the arguments against waste storage and disposal are ridiculous; in 15 years, not a single death or serious injury has been suffered as a result of AEC's program. But public uneasiness continues to increase, and to combat it AEC, beginning this week in Atlanta, is sponsoring a series of four regional conferences to explain its disposal practices...
...antennas, each the size of a 3O-story building. While still ascending, an enemy missile would pass through the low-altitude beam, then the higher one, providing a fix for computers to crank out its speed, direction, probable point of impact. Fifteen minutes before the missile could land, the combat operations center in Colorado Springs would be warned. The word would flash instantly to the White House, the Pentagon, Ottawa, regional air-defense commanders, the Strategic Air Command and Civil Defense officials...
...weather was balmier, and in Russia no one would be wearing U.S. Army-style combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...