Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since "management today doesn't require specific skills," (especially obsolescent military skills), should not a U.S. general staff be dominated by successful lay civilians, like McElroy, who have successfully specialized in high command...
From West Pointer Clay, 60, now board chairman of Continental Can Co., came an old soldier's plea for a more unified military command, rooted in a strong Defense Secretary and bolstered by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with sole military authority for decisions. Today's Joint Chiefs setup, said Clay, is "just another committee." Clay also added his vote to those (notably members of the Rockefeller Report panel) who have been demanding a setup whereby senior officers would belong to the same service, wear the same uniform and stand above interservice rivalries...
Effective Answers. Some of the solutions (e.g., step-up of missile research and development, development of antisubmarine warfare programs, steps toward dispersal of the Strategic Air Command) have already taken hold, Johnson wrote-not without an oblique reference to the fact that much of this action began only after the committee's inquiry started. But overall, the committee urged strict attention to the kind of progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts...
...four areas that are vital (the others: Britain, Formosa. Okinawa) as IRBM sites if the West is to maintain its nuclear deterrent in the perilous period when Russia may have an intercontinental missile while the West has not. IRBMs launched from Turkish sites would reach well past Moscow, could command the industrial complex that lies west of the Urals...
...power is weakening--in his last term, he faces a Democratic Congress and a disillusioned nation--and he does not seem adequate to the pressing need for major decisions. If executive leadership is not forthcoming, and there is little precedent for it, the task of unifying the defense command, providing for a more adequate warning system and shelter system, and hastening the missile and satellite programs moves by default to Congress. Unfortunately, Congress has shown no real leadership in the past that might raise hopes for the future. The minority leader has been worrying about California, and the majority leader...