Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most important measures concern strategic arms, even though such weapons systems take only 7% of the defense budget. As Jones put it, "The strategic balance sets the tone for what goes on in the rest of the world." The Administration has just taken an important step in this area...
Despite all the attention paid to strategic weapons, experts are nearly unanimous that the U.S. would be making a dangerous error if it continued concentrating as much as it has on the nuclear balance. As long ago as the mid-1960s, when targets in the U.S. first became vulnerable to...
Since 1975 the Army and Air Force have been allocating increasing resources to conventional weapons and missions. But so widely is it felt that more must be done that the Pentagon plans to spend most of any budget boost it gets on its conventional forces. Initially, says Jones, the extra...
Resupply Capabilities. According to General Jones, "In any large operation or full-blown conflict short of a nuclear exchange, lift becomes a very critical factor." He feels that the Pentagon's ability to resupply troops rapidly on the battlefield is "one of the areas in which we run into limitations...
"He gets into an airplane and he just doesn't know how how turn toward the passenger compartment," says a senior aide about General David C. Jones. Indeed, during his frequent trips around the U.S. and to many parts of the globe, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...