Word: mcpeak
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That vision, of America's mothers and daughters going into battle and coming back maimed or in body bags, was precisely what traditionalist commanders had fought against for so long. Just last month, the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Merrill McPeak, told a group of female officers, "I think it is a mistake to open up bombers and fighters to women. I have a culturally based hang-up. I can't get over this image of old men ordering young women into combat." Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness in Livonia, Michigan, blasted the Administration after...
...confidence in an ultimate allied victory, Bush now admits that he had some doubts about the U.S. forces' ability to carry out his intentions with the devastating efficiency his commanders claimed. "I've got to confess that I wondered, when ((Air Force Chief of Staff)) Tony McPeak came up to Camp David and briefed me on what we could do with air power. I turned to ((National Security Adviser)) Brent Scowcroft or somebody; I said, 'Does this general know what he's talking about? I mean, this is awesome.' " Later, after McPeak had visited the U.S. staging ground in Saudi...
...Soviet Union slips from superpower status, some folks in the Pentagon must be dying to yell "We won!" GENERAL MERRILL MCPEAK came close. Visiting Moscow recently, the Air Force Chief of Staff addressed several hundred top Soviet air force officers, who were hoping to hear his thoughts on adjusting . to the postnuclear era. Instead, McPeak spent much of his time describing the brilliant performance of the U.S. Air Force in the gulf war before musing, "In war, defeat is a better instructor than victory." O.K., so far. But then he added, "This is probably a Russian saying...
Bush has created his own pantheon of military heroes, relishing the performances in the war and on television of men like Schwarzkopf, Marine Lieut. General Walter Boomer and Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak. So far, those commanders have been able to do just what they promised, Bush has said admiringly in his planning sessions. Yet, says one of the President's close counselors, "the President is afraid to let himself believe these assessments...
Cheney appointed Pacific Air Force General Merrill McPeak as Dugan's successor and declared the affair at an end. Perhaps. But after reading General Dugan's scenario, America's allies may remain nervous about what other unilateral military adventures rest in the Pentagon's safes...