Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong views." The most recent Embry views: the R.A.F. is unready for atomic war, dominated by the civil service, shackled to outdated strategy and outmoded jet types by pound-pinchers at Her Majesty's Treasury. Like his good friend General Curtis LeMay, chief of the U.S. Strategic Air Command and another battle-tested brasshat, Embry thinks that the next war will turn on the air forces' capacity to deliver immediate and lethal retaliation...
...General Snyder, 74, is a career Army medic who has been retired and returned to active duty three times, always under the command of his old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. He is one of the President's favorite bridge partners...
What had caused the mild winds of discontent on a small Mediterranean island to blow up into a crisis involving the entire Western alliance? Act I. It began with some inept diplomacy in London. The British, having turned Cyprus into their Middle East military-command post, decided the time had come to do something about Greece's demand for enosis (union) with Cyprus and its dominantly Greek (80%) population. Instead of seeking a direct Anglo-Greek settlement, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan polished up an old British plan for limited home rule, already rejected by the Greek Cypriots...
...Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected of espionage by Chilean government. Served as Argentina's representative on Inter-American Defense Board in Washington in 1947-48. Retired as two-star general in 1951 after dismissal from command of Frist Army (HQ Rosario) for allegedly plotting against Perón Underground Career. As a leader of an ineffectual anti-Perón plot in 1952, he was jailed for eight months. Suspected of participating in another plot the next year, he successfully defied police by demanding that a general...
...take-off afterburners can get it into the air with a 30,000-lb. payload and push it faster than 600 m.p.h. at 40,000-ft. altitude. These characteristics make it a medium bomber, although its Navy sponsors, for fear of antagonizing the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and the Navy's own airplane-carrier partisans, prefer to call it a "mine layer." Portable Base. If the SeaMaster proves out as its friends hope, it will add a new dimension to long-range air warfare. It will need no elaborate, fixed and vulnerable bases. Instead...