Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came studious, hard-working Lyman Lemnitzer was a major who had taken fullest advantage of the educational system by which the Army developed its peacetime professional officer corps to an astonishing level of efficiency. He had taught physics and allied subjects at West Point, was a graduate of the Command and General Staff School and the Army War College, and was accounted one of the Army's finest staff officers...
...Joint air-sea-land operations in coordination with Allies were to become standard operating procedure in World War II, but when the Allies landed on North Africa ("Operation Torch") in November 1942, the idea was a formidable novelty to planners. Lemnitzer drew up the plans for Torch. As Supreme Commander Eisenhower's Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3), he showed such a gift for working out the tactical obstacles and logistic snarls of joint operations that he became a sort of permanent, rotating staff officer, got little chance to command his own unit...
...mission in the crises that are bound to lie ahead. Gone is the day when the U.S. needs a massive Army to match the enemy's massive Army, for an all-out struggle would soon bring tactical nuclear air-power into play, ultimately the Strategic Air Command and carrier strike forces. But gone also is the day when airpower theorists can write off the Army as mere "trip wire" or "plate glass" to sound the general alarm for all-out nuclear...
...lining Major Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second-in-command at La Cabana Fortress, Major Benjamin Camino, an open antiCommunist, was recently arrested for "conspiracy...
...American public in the fields of fallout danger and of test detection capabilities have not yet been exposed. While the committee has concentrated on some of his more blatant failures in Executive-Legislative liason, it has left untouched his record as a creature of the Strategic Air Command in the Oppenheimer case...