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...offers new evidence, if any were needed, that the military bureaucracy must have strong civilian leadership to prevent waste and duplication, and that competing interests among and within the services tend to stifle innovation. Elements in the Navy, for instance, resisted the Polaris submarine project, fearing that it would divert resources from other Navy programs. In 1961, when imaginative Army thinkers devised the airmobile concept, they got a cool reception from their own superiors until McNamara's office offered encouragement. Only after the techniques of Systems Analysis established the real differences between American and Russian military capability in Europe...
...replacement. The granite balustrades, corbels, facings, cutwaters and retaining walls-10,000 tons in all-were shipped block by block across ocean and desert to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, an Arizona town developed from scratch by McCulloch Oil. Buying a bridge, then building a canal to divert water from the Colorado River for the bridge to cross, was an act of commercial savvy as well as historical piety...
This general is an unusual case, though. Some months after my conversation a major government-military crisis developed when an over-eager Air Force general tried to divert planes from the opium trade to fighting the war. He lost. Let the B-52's and Air America do the fighting. It was the Americans' idea in the first place...
...work with no conception of its implications for Lao nationalism. Even when he has no part of it, he cannot undo the damage done by the American war effort nor can he even rectify the image of the American oppressor. And what if he could? He only serves to divert the enthusiasm of the people from their only realistic source of security...
...presidential elections. Otherwise we are certain to become worse than Attila, worse than Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, more cowardly and worse than Hitler and Tojo combined. All the official propaganda about saving our environment from pollution, while committing genocide in Indochina, is obscene. It is an effort to divert attention, I fear, from U. S. government barbarism in Indochina, and avarice and imperialism around the world...