Word: materiel
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...that the Chinese had already captured 927 Indian officers and men, claimed that the new Red counterattacks around Walong had "smashed" the Indian defenses. New Delhi conceded its troops had given some ground. Shipments of U.S. and British weapons have not yet reached many forward positions, but regardless of materiel, the Indian jawans are determined to hold back the invader by any means, even, said one officer, "if we have to use the knife...
...proposal would create a Materiel Development and Logistic Command, bossed by a four-star general, which would centralize all the procurement, logistics, and research and development programs now operated by each tech service. A new Office of Personnel Operations would take over the assignment and career planning of nearly all officers and enlisted men, functions that the tech services now claim separately for themselves. A Combat Developments Command would be established to develop the doctrines for a versatile modern Army able to fight jungle actions against guerrillas or nuclear battles on fields covering hundreds of miles. After the reform...
...from Shanghai. With the Red conquest of the mainland, Li became Minister of Heavy Industry, and went to Moscow in 1950 to help negotiate a 30-year treaty of alliance with Joseph Stalin. In 1953 Li signed the pact under which the Soviet Union agreed to supply money and materiel for China's first Five-Year Plan. His reward was promotion to Chairman of the State Planning Commission...
...flexible warfare (TIME cover, July 28). Last month the Defense Department merged Stateside Army units and Air Force fighter-bomber squadrons to increase vital air-ground coordination on the battlefield. In appropriations, the Army got an extra $1.4 billion with instructions to spend it mainly on the men and materiel of limited war. Around the world, Army units are getting a badly needed transfusion of modern equipment: the fully automatic M-14 rifle (which finally is replacing the famed M-1 of World War II), the lightweight M-60 machine gun, a lighter and livelier Jeep, the M-60 tank...
When Knudsen resigned to go to Washington just before World War II, Charlie Wilson took over as president of G.M. Under his presidency, General Motors became the greatest cornucopia of war materiel in human history. From its production lines flowed a quarter of the tanks and armored cars, nearly half of the machine guns and carbines, three-quarters of the diesel engines used by the U.S. armed forces during the war. Dwight Eisenhower first encountered Wilson while serving as the Army's Chief of Staff in the postwar years; in 1952, after Ike was elected Pres ident, Wilson...