Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most difficult is what should be done about the Military Code of Conduct. In the wake of the forced confessions of the Pueblo crew, many now think that the code is worthless when applied under cold war conditions. However, S.L.A. Marshall, the military historian and retired general who was one of the chief architects of the code, says that a false conclusion is being drawn. Writing in a recent New Leader, he argues that the code actually requires prisoners of war to give name, rank, serial number and date of birth. The next sentence in the same article...
...risky trying to fence with the enemy; that it is better to remain silent. In any event, while the Pueblo investigation could have brought this entire question of the code into public discussion, it never did. The question remains unanswered, and the problems remain unsolved concerning espionage missions in general and the difficulties of mounting chancy military operations in which wartime conditions may suddenly arise while the country is technically at peace. The Pueblo case may be closed, but the doubts persist...
...Navy has eight or nine operating AGERS (meaning Auxiliary General Electronics Research ships) similar to Pueblo, but it is unlikely that any are now cruising the hostile waters off North Korea. While these vessels are considered inferior to the EC-121s for electronic surveillance-the planes can pick up high-angle radar beams more easily than the ships-the AGERS are more versatile. They monitor radio broadcasts, collect water samples needed to develop sonar penetration methods, track Soviet submarines, and observe and photograph surface shipping...
...troops stationed in South Korea, the Pentagon regards the intelligence gathered by the EC-121s as worth the considerable risk. The same is true of the information collected by AGERS in other parts of the world. The provocations against them have been going on for a long time. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently disclosed that since 1949 U.S. reconnaissance ships and planes have been the targets of 41 attacks by the North Koreans...
...Israel in order to retain the confidence of militant Arabs and, more crucially, of his own army. At the same time, it is doubtful whether he could long remain in power if he led the Arabs into another round and lost. He no longer shares power in Egypt with General Abdel Hakim Amer, who committed suicide?or so the government said?after the 1967 war, and so Nasser could not again place the blame for defeat on the army. Since 1967, he has had personal control of Egypt's military, and now he is alone at the top, without...