Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forcing them to tighten their belts and concentrate on aggressive adventures and military preparations, including the production of outdated arms; 4) started the war in Korea confident that a walkover victory would be accepted by the U.S.; 5) recklessly exposed the Soviet Union to the grave danger of a global war and possible atomic attacks which the backward Soviet air force could have neither prevented nor retaliated...
...GLOBAL PLANNING...
...Army, unaware that there had been any dilution, somehow got its hand on a copy of Scott's original plan, set forth in detail in a paper called A Decade of Security Through Global Air Power. In the lower-ranking Pentagon "C" ring of offices, the bright young colonels began to worry-and to prepare for a real fight...
...staff studies, transmitted first to the Army general staff and later to the field commanders. Liaison was established with sympathetic Democratic Senators, e.g., Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson. One of Metheny's planners answered General Scott's Air Force paper with A Decade of Insecurity Through Global Air Power. Not yet, however, could the . Army break into the open. Still ahead was another conference in Puerto Rico-this time a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had been ordered by Dwight Eisenhower to get away from the Pentagon for a full-scale review...
...refers to the nine Supreme Court Justices as "a little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County" (the bottom of Georgia's backwoods; county seat: Camilla, pop. 4,000). He calls the U.S. foreign-aid program a "global WPA," and roars: "We gave money to build grain elevators in Pakistan. Why, that's 12,500 miles from Georgia...