Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi returned home from her three-week tour of Western nations last week, one of the first things she did was to go before her hawkish Parliament and plead for patience toward her handling of the crisis with Pakistan. The urgent need for a solution was all too apparent. Officials in New Delhi said that the biggest frontier battle yet between Indians and Pakistanis occurred when 2,800 Pakistani regulars crossed the border into West Bengal. Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram rose in Parliament to say that if India was attacked, it would "carry the war into...
...raise the nuclear issue. For some time, Japanese strategists have worried over America's Asian withdrawal, the rise of China's nuclear capability, and the increasing presence of Soviet warships in the seas around Japan. Many of Japan's defense leaders (and a number of hawkish civilians) have agreed that Japan will need its own arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons by around...
...bled white while fighting them with conventional weapons." Rusk, however, was relatively restrained in comparison with many other ranking U.S. officials. Time and again, the Pentagon papers show that Washington's instinctive reaction was to resort to military force when faced with difficult problems in Asia. Fortunately, less hawkish options were usually adopted, but the initial responses of U.S. leaders were uniformly militaristic and sometimes downright bellicose...
...surprising author of that cable was former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the same Rusk of the hawkish eyeball that never blinked, the Buddha whose monotonously repeated mantra of justification seemingly never changed through the years of escalation. Contrary to his historic image, did he oppose the first loop in the endless spiral into Indochina? In an interview from his home in Athens, Ga., Rusk broke his long silence. He told TIME Correspondent Jess Cook that he had "no present recollection" of the cable, but "I might well have written...
Despite his hawkish pronouncements, he was essentially a reflective and circumspect man. He profoundly feared the outbreak of World War III, and this guided him in many of his decisions. The Viet Nam War overshadowed his earlier efforts to get the military to accept the nuclear test ban treaty. It had been no sure thing. He had had to sit for hours with the Joint Chiefs and patiently answer-with a little less arrogance than usual-their every objection. Even in the case of Viet Nam, he argued from the beginning against all-out war; he was never happy with...