Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean invasion: the quick recourse to the United Nations Security Council and the dispatch of arms aid (which the President had set in motion soon after the Communists began rolling). But in its blackboard arguments, NSC had never been able to make up its mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy; the State Department-backed by the Navy-had said it very well might be, for reasons of U.S. prestige in Asia and U.S. leadership in the world...
...Morale Is Fine." We asked another soldier, a stubbled infantryman with a cluster of grenades dangling from his belt, how morale was. "Morale is fine. We have the best morale in the world," he said, "but what can morale do against planes and tanks...
...East, Wavell smashed Graziani's Italian army during the 1940 North African campaign; after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense against the Japanese invasion threat. A soldier's soldier, he once said that the combat infantryman, should combine the arts of "a successful poacher, at cat-burglar and a gunman...
...last week, Brack Lee's trail was littered with the bones of sacred cows. Early this year, he flatly refused state funds to hire more help for veterans' affairs, although he was a World War I infantryman himself. "I favor all help possible to injured veterans," said he, "but veterans who returned without physical or mental damage should deem it a privilege to have served their country, to say nothing of the experience and travel they gained...
...Absent Critic. It was not an impressive effort, but Infantryman Bradley had to carry the argument alone. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, the Administration's most severe critic of State's lethargy in China, was off vacationing at the time of decision. It was Johnson who was partly responsible for needling the President into action, who had privately boasted: "I'll keep asking what our policy on China is until I find out." Yet, when the time for battle came, Louis Johnson was away: he had been traced to the swank Jupiter Island Club at Hobe Sound...