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Quarles's firm conclusion: Though much is spoken "of the uses of modern weapons in the prosecution of war . . . the most profitable use of modern arms is in making their readiness for employment and the intent to employ them so plain that no war occurs. To deter not only total war, but limited war as well, I believe we must make clear to all potential aggressors that we will resist aggression with our quality weapons from the outset. Any lesser posture of deterrence is an open invitation to aggression, and is less than our best effort to avert...
...still needed to be said publicly to back up the week's U.S. diplomacy. Now Gruenther, with specific White House authority, set about saying it in terms that no Communist geopolitician could misunderstand. "The main purpose and the guiding principle that we always have," he began, "is to deter a war from taking place . . . Probably the outstanding element in the deterrent as of today, the 13th of November, 1956, is the fact that we have air units with an overwhelming capacity which could retaliate very significantly and very destructively in this area." Gruenther turned toward one of his maps...
...President, the U.S. has proposed and the Russians have rejected no fewer than 14 new plans to break the disarmament deadlock and to work out a foolproof agreement. Under such circumstances the U.S. has no alternative but to keep up its guard. "The power of these weapons to deter aggression and to guard world peace could be lost if we failed to hold our superiority...
...struggle for peaceful co-existence the free world has been continually on the defensive. Accordingly, its foreign policy has consisted primarily of building or re-building the strength of the pro-western nations, particularly the European democracies. These countries, united within the defense alliance of NATO, were meant to deter aggression through a show of combined strength...
National Defense. Both agree that the U.S. must continue to maintain a military establishment powerful enough to deter aggression. At issue: the Democrats charge the Administration has settled for "second best" defense; the Republicans believe the U.S. "has the strongest striking force in the world." The more specific Republican plank calls for a jet-powered, long-range Air Force, the most effective guided missiles, a modern Navy with a powerful air arm, an Army with unequaled mobility and firepower, and bases "strategically dispersed at home and around the world...