Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army conventional-war strategists scored high points last May, when Major General Charles H. Bonesteel III. now special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepared a memo that is the backbone of the new doctrine. Wrote Bonesteel: "Continued primary reliance on massive nuclear retaliation to deter all forms of aggression will limit the United States' strategy to a choice between retreat or acceptance of the probability of mutual destruction of the United States and the U.S.S.R." Because of the nuclear impasse, wrote Bonesteel, the U.S. non-nuclear forces must be made stronger to allow...
...Kissinger joins in the urgent warning that the buildup of Russian missile strength calls for a drastic overhaul of U.S. defense policy. While somewhat nervously overstating the imminent peril of the missile gap ( TIME. Feb. 17). Kissinger argues convincingly that U.S. forces, in order to deter, must be able to absorb a first strike and still retaliate with the promise of damage which the Soviets will find unacceptable...
...that even in the face of first the missile gap and then the approaching mutual invulnerability, we continue to rely on the threat of all-out war as our primary deterrent.'' With invulnerable ICBMs providing a nuclear standoff, says Kissinger, the only way the U.S. can deter less-than-total aggression is by having strong limited-war forces. In a small war pressures will be strong on both sides to avoid the use of nuclear weapons. Hence the U.S. should build up its conventional forces. "The conventional capability of the free world should be sufficiently powerful so that...
...meaningless drill in arithmetic. For a country like the U.S., dedicated to the proposition that it will not strike the first blow, the problem is to build a retaliatory force capable of surviving any sneak attack. U.S. strategy requires that the very existence of that force deter aggression. If there is no deterrent gap, a mere missile gap is insignificant...
...have watched its effect on others--not many I will admit, because few prisoners have the desire to learn, encouragement is scarce, and facilities are poor. But of those who do improve their education, none return. If the proponents of punishment are sincere in asserting that they punish to deter, they should certainly not be opposed to a plan that would serve the same purpose in a more effective and less costly manner. We should start, whatever the cost, with some sort of federal inspection or control or reform schools, not leave the respective states to coddle or cudgel...