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...Wheeler's words, that "they have to pay a price for their activities." The Joint Chiefs realize that such action might bring the Communist Chinese into even more active participation in the Vietnamese conflict-but that is a risk they are willing to run. President Johnson and Secretary McNamara obviously disagree with them...
Without the Bellyaching. Once the civilian decision is made, McNamara insists that his military leaders fall into line and support-at least in public-his policies. He watches the Chiefs with a hawk's eye, sends civilian aides to listen in when the J.C.S. members appear in closed sessions before congressional committees, reads carefully the transcripts of their testimony...
...formerly the TFX) has been Pentagon-approved, and the prototype has taken to the air far ahead of schedule in highly successful tests. Money for developing a cargo plane (the C-5A) able to airlift 750 men has been approved. New nuclear surface ships may well be okayed by McNamara as part of his doctrine of flexibility...
...Although McNamara is the final authority on any decisions moving out of the Pentagon, he says of his relations with the J.C.S.: "I never make a recommendation to the President without indicating the degree of differences with them...
...some outsiders, particularly on Capitol Hill, McNamara's dominance over the J.C.S. seems a cause for concern. Where once they worried that the J.C.S. might become so powerful as to be a sort of "Prussian General Staff," they now fret lest the Chiefs become too subservient to the civilians. But the fact remains that under McNamara the nation's military power has grown as never before-with less waste of money and with less energy expended in futile interservice and military-civilian fights. McNamara's new team of military managers seems likely to flourish in that fashion...