Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-Communist tactics based on Christian principles have failed universally. The argument that Templer-type combat is too reminiscent of Communist tactics is both specious and suicidal. In hand-to-hand street fighting, no man ever won by appealing to the spectators that he was being fouled. The victor must concentrate on winning, and if it takes a rabbit-punch or kidney blow-he uses it, and quickly...
...military planning into the jet age, have staked top priorities and tremendous resources on gaining air superiority. In six years they have turned out 25,000 new military planes, more than half of them jets. By 1954, the Russians will have an air force of 20,000 first-line combat planes, nearly all jets...
...Peril. In view of these estimates (which would be disastrous if wrong), the Joint Chiefs of Staff have hopefully fixed 1954 as the U.S. "peril point." To prepare the U.S. for that moment, the JCS last fall belatedly fixed a minimum goal: an air force of 143 wings (126 combat, 17 transport) by 1954, designed to 1) protect the nation against the first shock of attack and 2) hold off the attackers until the U.S. can build to full war strength. It was against this professional estimate of the situation that the President of the U.S. set his opinion...
...fact that the U.S. now faces such a guessing-game future is the product of many miscalculations and many failures-the pell-mell postwar demobilization which plunged the most powerful air force in history to a strength of two fully operative combat groups by 1946; the persistent misreading of Russian capabilities and intentions; the failure to understand the implications of the revolutionary combination of jet air power, atomic weapons and electronic controls. The fact that there is now a plan calculated to reassert U.S. power is primarily a result of the Air Force's fierce campaign for recognition...
...Shoestring. But Korea was (and is) a war to drive the airmen mad. It siphoned off eleven combat groups just when the Air Force was straining to build to the 70 groups which it then deemed necessary for minimum U.S. defense. In Korea air power was forbidden to strike enemy supply dumps across the Yalu or to strike at the menacing buildup of enemy planes and bases. At the MacArthur hearings last year, Vandenberg stepped lightly around the MacArthur issue. But he managed to strike another solid blow for air power...