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*Wallace offered his own estimate of the proper size of the Army: "Perhaps a million men." Reminded that Defense Secretary James Forrestal had asked for only 782,000, Wallace ate crow-without choking on any feathers. "That was a figure I pulled out of the air," he said.
To acquire that increment of manpower, Secretary Forrestal would clamp selective service on the 3,600,000 young men aged 19 to 25. To provide the added strength, and constant replacements, the total number needed in the first year: 720,000. Even with deferments for World War II veterans, married...
The Forrestal program also included universal military training, which would supply a constant pool of 850,000 men at least partially trained. Forrestal did not explain how U.M.T. would be separated from selective service. Presumably U.M.T. would catch the 18-year-olds.
To the Congressmen, Forrestal's chiefs of staff explained in astonishing detail how they would employ the military establishment which he proposed. A little more than a quarter of a million troops would have to be used in occupation and garrison duties. Alaskan forces should be increased from 7...
The various anti-Communist moves throughout Europe were not part of a definite plan; but they had a connection. Testifying last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal had said: "The disease of despair is contagious, but there is a greater contagion in hope."