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Homely Principles. Lest anyone think such penny pinching had jeopardized the nation's military strength, McNamara ticked off some impressive signs of his stewardship: >Nuclear warheads in the strategic alert forces...
...achieved results by literal application of such homely principles as buying only what is needed, buying it at the lowest price and reducing operating costs. Closer analysis of materiel requirements enabled the Defense Department to cut purchases and inventory levels by a whopping $1.4 billion. To drive harder bargains, McNamara has insisted on more competitive contract awards and fewer cost-plus agreements. Operating costs were cut $292 million by closing unnecessary installations and standardizing supply management through the new Defense Supply Agency...
...Most encouraging note in the report was that the services themselves, under McNamara's prodding, have actually become enthusiastic about saving money. The Navy, planning to buy 1,400 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, found it already had enough, scrapped the order at a saving of $45 million. The Marine Corps found it could adapt Army 120-mm. shells for use in its M103 tanks at a cost of 32#162 per shell instead of paying $95 each for new ones. The Army decided it could get along with $1,200,000 less worth of insect repellent than...
Apparently, everyone from the Pentagon to the remote barracks was getting cost-conscious. Glowed McNamara: "We are literally being flooded with thousands of suggestions from individual military and civilian personnel...
Dawn Rise. To South Viet Nam's leaders, this must have come as a pleasant surprise. Only eight months ago, General Taylor and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had been talking of withdrawing all U.S. troops by 1965. This served only to inspire the Viet Cong, hardly helped morale in Saigon...