Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grateful for the lucid account of the taking of the Pueblo [Feb. 2], an account that we cannot read without feelings of shame. What is happening in our Navy, which once responded so manfully to the command, "Pipe all hands to repel boarders"? If the captain of the Pueblo was instructed never to use his machine guns, something is wrong with our leadership. Time and again military units of the U.S. have been insulted or knocked about because a cold-war enemy shrewdly guessed that the unit would suffer such treatment...
...reports to the White House have been less exuberant than his public pronouncements. Presumably, he was misled by his intelligence unit. Nearly all military experts agree Westmoreland has underestimated Communist strength-or overestimated the effectiveness of Viet Nam's regular army and paramilitary units. His own command admits the strength of the enemy Tet offensive came as a shock...
Calling the Shots. To some experts, Westmoreland's prime weakness as a commander (and every commander has one, military men are quick to point out) is the opposite of the late Douglas MacArthur's. He is too willing to accept orders from Washington without fighting for his own views. "He hasn't had what it takes to insist all the way that his own best ideas prevail," says a former high officer. "No other general has ever had to suffer a command structure like this. But a general has got to know what is right and what...
...sharpen coordination between the 55,000 U.S. combat soldiers and Marines counterpoised for the enemy offensive in the I Corps Area, General Westmoreland last week dispatched his deputy commander and likely successor in Viet Nam, General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams Jr., to Phu Bai to set up a forward command post. Known as "the fightin'est man" in the U.S. Army, the World War II armored-cavalry commander, a West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When...
...switches which have plagued the HUC. The HPC has no pretense of being a representative body. Its members aren't elected--they are appointed by house masters; and so the group includes a number of shrewd people who might never enter, much less win, a house committee election. They command respect and push HPC policy skillfully in individual meetings with Faculty members and Deans...