Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADMIRAL ARTHUR WILLIAM RADFORD, 57, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet...
...recognition of air power, he served in Washington, planning the Navy's air operations, later won two Distinguished Service Medals as commander of fast carrier task groups in the Pacific under Admirals "Bull" Halsey and Raymond Spruance. In 1949, on duty as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he led the famed "revolt of the admirals." At the congressional hearings, Radford blasted the Defense Department for sapping the Navy's offensive strength, called the 6-36 a "billion-dollar blunder." At one point, the Army chief of staff, General Dwight Eisenhower, became so angry at Radford that...
...Fleet's basic question: "Why, when we are so thoroughly and completely superior to the Chinese Reds in North Korea, do we even consider anything less than a genuine [Asia-wide] peace?" Part of the answer, he believes, lies in a general misappraisal of Chinese military power and potential...
Right War. The Chinese also face a crippling supply problem, says Van Fleet...
...Fleet offers no comfort to those who believe U.S. intervention in Korea was a mistake from the start. "In terms of high strategy." says he, "the Reds have lost the war in Korea, and they know it . . . The fact is that if we have to have a war with the Reds anywhere-a choice they themselves have made in this instance-Korea is for us the right war in the right place at the right time...