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Almost unnoticed in the whirl of the week's news came a U.S. move that could mean much in the long-run future of the cold war. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced the merging of the Army's combat-ready Stateside troops and Stateside troops and Stateside units of Air Force's Tactical Air Command. The new joint command is designed to speed up the airlift of U.S. troops to overseas trouble spots and to guarantee them close aerial support once they swing into action. In particular, the command will aim at fighting limited, brush-fire wars...
...McNamara's plan is a bold attempt to cure a basic weakness in U.S. fighting strength that has existed since 1947, when the Air Force was set up as a separate service. Without its own aircraft, the Army became dependent upon the Air Force for transportation to the fighting front and close tactical support when it got there. But the Army and the Air Force all too often failed to work well together; air-ground teamwork sagged badly, despite the bloody lesson of World War II that the rifleman needed help from the fighter-bomber. Unable to count...
...McNamara's request, the Joint Chiefs of Staff last winter began studying the problems of an air-ground merger, gave their enthusiastic approval in a 1¼-in.-thick document stamped top secret. On other projects, the Joint Chiefs have made McNamara and President Kennedy fume with shoddy staff work, but this time their study held up under criticism, was put into effect with few changes...
J.F.K. Report (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The New Frontier, discussed by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Senators Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen, Representatives John McCormack and Charles Halleck and news commentators...
...Other ex-Whiz Kids: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Ford Motor Co. Group Vice President James O. Wright...