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Several high army officials in the Pentagon have expressed the "warmest possible praise" for the attack on U.S. war transport facilities made in the latest Reporter magazine by Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., associate director of the defense studies program...
...Newman, managing editor of the Reporter, said yesterday that "very high sources indeed" had commended Katzenbach's views and that one official had called the article "very good and timely." The correspondents would not reveal their names and but one Pentagon spokesman possessed very strong favorable views, but "all things considered . . . they should be kept to myself," he said...
...transport an army airborne division would require the use of "practically the whole of the available Air Force transport capability," Katzenbach writes. The author also holds that it would take 1,800 man-weeks to convert enough aircraft to cargo planes in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, planes set aside by airline companies for military emergencies...
...transport is equally inadequate, Katzenbach continues, since 31 days would be needed to transport a combat-ready Marine division from the United States to the Middle East. To discuss 31-day movements is "almost meaningless," he quotes the Chief of Army Research and Development as saying...
...light of the transport problem, Katzenbach feels that the Pentagon will now be forced to use atomic weapons in place of troops to pursue its policy of "gradual deterrence." The author cites Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles's belief that conflicts must be localized through "carefully chosen atomic weapons." Katzenbach doubts, however, that atomic weapons could be used successfully in the Suez crisis, or in central Europe...