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Other panelists are retired Army Gen. Robert W. Riscassi, former Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Command; Pete McCloskey, a former U.S. Representative from California; Donald P. Gregg, former U.S. Ambassador to Korea; retired Army Col. Young O. Kim and Don Oberdorfer, an accomplished journalist. Most of the panelists served in the military in Korea at some point in their careers...
...down on confusing lines of command, the commission would strengthen the role of the ten theater commanders who actually control the troops in the field by making them report to the Secretary of Defense through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The theater commands are now unified in name only. For example, the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), who happens to be a Navy admiral, lacks the authority to choose his Air Force subordinate, who in practice is far more beholden to the Chief of the Air Force...
...thing, the President is commander-in-chief. He has responsibility for 2700 overseas bases and 4000 square miles of territory in 30 countries. However the Senate may define "national commitment," these installations alone commit the U. S. to a policy of unilateral military response in much of the world. Such unilateral action would even cover, as Mr. Nixon showed last week, the right to authorize aerial bombings on the Plaine des Jarres or massive strategic assistance to the Royal Laotian Army. SR 85 merely compels the President to choose tactics which will command Congressional support or create Congressional hostility...
...drew his most vigorous applause when he spoke about the duty of acting as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. "He assigns commanders," and also, "He can take them out." This was an obvious reference to his transfer of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur from the command of the U.N. troops in Korea, a move which provoked much discussion...
...Command: President of the West German Republic (currently 70-year-old Theodor Heuss) will presumably be commander-in-chief, delegating authority to a civilian-defense minister (probably Blank). Number of generals: 35 to 40 (there were 1,400 in 1945). If and when German forces come under NATO, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery will supervise their training. In the field they will serve under NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther of the U.S., and his European ground-forces commander, Marshal Alphonse Juin of France. Timetable: If the go-ahead comes soon, the first West German...