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...forward strategy would be as doomed as the Charge of the Light Brigade. "The carrier battle group is not going to do very well against the air defenses of a first-class power armed with cruise-missile-carrying submarines and surface ships, Backfire bombers and oceangoing surveillance," says Robert Komer, a former top Defense Department official who is now a consultant with the Rand Corporation in Washington. "The triumph of the carrier was in World War II. We made the same mistake back then when we concentrated on battleships at first. The Japanese proved us wrong at Pearl Harbor." Senator...
...able commander who exercises shrewd political and military judgment. He brings to his new post unusually broad experience, having served as commander in chief of the Allied Forces in Southern Europe from 1980 to 1983 and as commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command since then. Says Robert Komer, a former Under Secretary of Defense: "Crowe is a broad-gauged guy, a truly independent thinker. He is certain to put his imprint on this job." AGRICULTURE A $6 Million Bash...
DIED. ROBERT KOMER, 78, President Johnson's aggressive chief of "pacification," the controversial propaganda program aimed at the Vietnamese during the war; in Arlington, Va. A once fiery hawk, he came to view the war as "a strategic disaster...
...seems, I would guess, that the administration would keep on top of that," said Cyrus Komer '95 of Matthews Hall. "If it's only been a few months, though, I quess it's not a big deal...
...Trident fleet at the expense of both the land-based and airborne parts of its nuclear arsenal, no leading strategist would eliminate any one of the Triad's legs. "There are no practical alternatives," says Vice Admiral Ron Thunman, who heads the Navy's submarine program. Robert Komer, a former Pentagon official, says, "It's just the natural balance of power and threat...