Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal. He is being replaced by a much admired West Pointer (class of '54): Brigadier General John ("No Holds") Bard, 47, a Rhodes scholar who earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan and is currently executive to NATO Commander General Alexander Haig...
...shrill, many Western military men agree with it. Similar views are certain to punctuate this week's separate meetings of the alliance's Defense Ministers and Foreign Ministers at NATO headquarters near Brussels. A classified combat effectiveness report, prepared for NATO Commanding General Alexander Haig, will serve as a tough briefing paper for the meetings. Haig's conclusion: the alliance's conventional ground forces are weak and must be strengthened. Because of the Soviet buildup, warns Haig, "NATO will have less and less warning of a potential Soviet offensive." The most charitable assessment that one NATO...
FIREPOWER. NATO needs more artillery, tanks and battlefield missiles. At a minimum, the U.S. should replenish the reserves of armored personnel carriers, howitzers, antitank missiles and tanks that were shipped from Europe to Viet Nam or Israel. Confesses Haig: "For a long period of time, we were sneaking supplies out of Europe." Allied arms depots should be better dispersed to make them less vulnerable to enemy attack. Most U.S. supplies are stored within 30 miles of West Germany's Kaiserslautern...
MOBILIZATION. The alliance's response time must be shortened. Says a Washington weapons analyst: "It's not just a question of Al Haig pushing a button. The Danish parliament never gets a four-fifths majority on anything, but that is what is needed to move its Jutland divisions into proper positions in the south. In some cases the ammunition for units is five to six hours away...
...staff to "expediters," give new emphasis to the Cabinet as the Administration's chief policymaking body, and use its members as his principal advisers. He has promised there would be no palace guard in the White House, no high chamberlain with the powers that H.R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig had under Richard Nixon. Instead, Carter would give three or four senior aides equal rank and, along with his Cabinet, equal access...