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...Task Force commander, Weller can also call on a considerable phalanx of Southeast Asian forces both inside and out of SEATO. The Thais have a sharp, U.S.-trained cadre of 90,000 soldiers equipped with M-1 rifles, and a good air force with F-86s. South Viet Nam's 150,000-man defense force is available, and so is Cambodia's army of 28,000, the tough Philippines' of 50,000, and Pakistan's soldiery numbering 160,000. Poised for take-off in Malaya are the 2,500 members of Britain's crack Commonwealth...
...funneled millions of dollars' worth of aid for Laos, and it is from Bangkok that the U.S. would operate its defense of that chaotic country. The Thai forces are shaky but improving rapidly. This year Thailand's air force got its first North American F-86s (graduating from ancient F-84s). The 90,000-man army is weak in communications and plagued by spare-parts shortages, but its intrepid front-line troops are equipped with M-1 rifles. Five good airfields stand ready as front-line bases for incoming jets from Clark Field...
...scheduled 100,000 men, the air force now has about 64,000, nearly all volunteers. Under command of Lieut. General Josef Kammhuber, boss of all German night fighters in World War II, the Luftwaffe is already airborne and climbing fast. So far, five Luftwaffe wings are flying F-86s and F-845 for NATO. After keeping the French on tenterhooks for two years over a possible order for their Mirage III fighter, Strauss plumped last year for the U.S.-built F-IO4 as the Luftwaffe's main-line plane. The first trainer models have already been delivered...
...Twelve used MIG-15 jets, the same fighters clobbered by U.S. F-86s in Korea, along with another eight or ten newer MIG-17s. Total air force strength: 150 to 200 planes...
...just asked Washington for an additional loan to balance the badly out of whack Iranian budget, and the military-minded Shah grumbles that he is not getting any supersonic century series jet fighters, even though there are only a handful of Iranian pilots skillful enough to fly the F-86s he already...