Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft agreed that a U.S. land army of "reasonable size" (about 1,500,000 men) would be necessary-to repel any invasion of the American continent, to defend a global string of U.S. and allied sea and air bases, and perhaps to fight occasional minor actions in selected areas where there was a clear opportunity for victory. At some later date, if Europe's defense appeared to have "a reasonable chance of success," he would be willing to send "some limited number of American divisions" to help. Until then, and as a basic principle, the nation's allies...
...When the public show was over, the representatives of eight Commonwealth countries shifted to Attlee's small businesslike cabinet room, where-out of the world's sight and hearing-they began their fourth conference since the war. They would talk for ten days, discuss every aspect of global strategy affecting the Commonwealth's 570 million people...
From worried U.S. industrialists who have the big job of rearming the nation, came the shocking answer: not very well. In fact, big-scale arms production has not even started. With the threat of global war deepening by the hour, the bitter truth is that the U.S. right now-after five months of a shooting war-is producing fewer weapons than it was when the Japs struck Pearl Harbor...
...Global War. Why, then, was the U.S. falling back to Alaska's inner core? It had been different in World War II. The Japanese, landing on Attu and Kiska, had tied up ten U.S. divisions. The Navy, hard-pressed at the crucial battle of Midway, had nonetheless spared five cruisers, 13 destroyers and six submarines to defend the big peninsula against a diversionary raid. Air bases were strewn along the coast and down the Aleutians at enormous cost: in 1942 the Army diverted desert-camouflaged planes intended for Africa to defend the very areas where...
...head of the Air War College for advocating preventive war with Russia (TIME, Sept. 11), got a new assignment: command of the 3750th Technical Training Wing at Wichita Falls, Texas, which turns out aircraft mechanics, hydraulic specialists, riggers, armorers, and other ground crewmen, has nothing to do with global strategy...