Word: combative
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Though Chapman has not been in combat since World War II, where he served with distinction as an artillery commander, he fits ideally the cerebral requirements of modern military leadership. Like the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with whom the commandant meets regularly as an associate member, Chapman is largely a product of Robert McNamara's industrialized Pentagon; last August he was given the Armed Forces Management Association's annual merit award for his mastery of management techniques in running the corps. Over the past six years in various staff jobs at the Marine headquarters...
Floridian "Chappie" Chapman, 54, was the dark horse choice between two other, better-known lieutenant generals, both also 54: popular, barrel-chested Lewis Walt and acerbic, shrimp-sized (5 ft. 4 in., 134 Ibs.) Victor H. ("Brute") Krulak. Walt and Krulak have vastly more combat experience than Chapman and both are experts on Viet Nam. Both are also controversial. Waltwhom the President last week named assistant commandant-has been criticized, unjustly, for not being aggressive enough during his two years as the Marine commander in Viet Nam. Krulak, a favorite of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy...
...Hawaiian archipelago, one of Lynda's favorite vacation spots (she has been there thrice). When they return, they will take up residence in a shrubbery-wreathed, $70,000 home near the White House, until Chuck departs in March for what he courageously hopes will be a combat post in Viet Nam. Meanwhile, they can catalogue their copious supply of wedding gifts, including a $6,770 silver tea and coffee service from the Washington diplomatic corps, a nest of teak tables from Chiang Kaishek, a color sketch of Eeyore by Winnie-the-Pooh Illustrator Ernest Shepard (Lynda is a Pooh...
...massive retaliation. Flexible response dictated that the nation must be able to meet any military challenge, whether nuclear, conventional or guerrilla, and it was up to McNamara to provide forces and hardware. Thus, while he was increasing the arsenal of long-range nuclear missiles, he expanded the number of combat Army divisions from eleven to 17, beefed up Special Forces, trebled the helicopter troop-lift component, and increased the number of guided-missile surface ships from 23 to 72. A stern test of his ability came in 1965, when the U.S. deployed 100,000 troops and their logistical support across...
...intervention" in Canadian domestic policies as "unacceptable" and "intolerable." Said Pearson: "I believe the statement distorted some Canadian history, misrepresented developments and wrongly predicted the future." The Frankfurter Rundschau suggested sarcastically that De Gaulle might next order "the Bundeswehr into action for the liberation of French Canadians." Combat, the Paris daily that grew out of the Resistance movement during World War II, sadly observed: "The international reactions to General de Gaulle's press conference have given the measure of the isolation of France: it has never been greater or more total...