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...only 35,000 men. However, instead of a planned buildup of 125,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam, the U.S. force there has already grown to 145,000, and it will pass the 200,000 mark by year's end. At the same time, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's "selected force" of 150,000 National Guardsmen and Army reservists (TIME, Oct. 8) got orders to speed up its training so that it could be deployed within eight weeks after mobilization. Reservists will not be called to active duty, according to present plans, save in a major crisis such...
...Will Stand." It was late July when the President of the U.S. summoned his aides to a three-day secret session to deliberate Viet Nam. Just back from Saigon was Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with the grim prognosis of peril. When Johnson announced his decision, it was the most significant for American foreign policy since the Korean War: "We will stand in Viet Nam." To stand meant in fact that the U.S. would go to Viet Nam in overwhelming force and stay until the job was done. Why? "If we are driven from the field in Viet Nam," the President...
...retribution, powerful adversaries such as the House Armed Services Committee's F. Edward Hebert began to question McNamara's programs, this year launched a full-scale bombardment that threatened the secretary's previously excellent legislative record. Over McNamara's violent objections, the committee pushed through a 10% military pay raise instead of the 5% he had asked, blocked his proposal to merge the Army Reserve and the National Guard, and nearly upset his plan to close military bases...
Planes & Missiles. To placate his opponents, McNamara has used some of his precious time to learn statesmanship. Before he announced plans last week to create a new, highly trained 145,000-man Army backup force from existing Army Reserve and National Guard units, he conferred respectfully with Hebert's subcommittee, asked and got its approval-even though the new force will have almost the same effect as his previously rejected proposal to merge the Army Reserve and National Guard...
...Secretary McNamara set the tenure record last week, his shop churned out a series of announcements that suggested the massive size and shape of his operation: the Defense Department 1) announced that Lockheed Aircraft had won the hotly contested $2 billion contract for the new C-5A military transport plane (see U.S. BUSINESS), 2) awarded to Western Electric a $21.5 million contract for development of an advanced Zeus anti-missile missile, and 3) promised a decision within 90 days on whether to begin production of an anti-missile system that could cost between $7 and $20 billion. The department also...