Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They consider the irreducible minimum to be a ready, full-strength aerial spearhead of 70 groups (some 8,000 planes) able to carry the war to the enemy's homeland, blast his cities and industry, cut up his slow-moving land armies. Behind the spearhead: eleven fully equipped combat divisions (some 132,000 men) freed from routine chores and immediately available to seize advance bases and begin the clinching land assault. The total: an Army and Air Force of 1,070,000 men, supported in flank actions by the 500,000-man Navy and Marine Corps...
...training would allow a number of options, which in length and intensity would equal at least six months. The options: 1) another six months' training, after which a trainee would have discharged all his obligations short of war; 2) enlistment in one of the regular services for a minimum of two years; 3) enrollment in one of the service academies; 4) enrollment in the National Guard or the Organized Reserve with 48 evenings a year of armory drill and two weeks in summer camp, for three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s or in the Enlisted Reserve Corps...
...accepted, the British hoped there would be one strong mold to bind the pieces-the Indian Army (present strength: 400,000, with 9,000 Indian officers, 4,000 British officers). The Hindus (56%), Moslems (34%), Sikhs and Christians in its ranks have worked together with minimum friction. In recent communal riots local police proved ineffective, while the Army's Hindu and Moslem troops obeyed orders, often succeeded in checking disturbances. But a purely Moslem army could not be expected to protect Hindu minorities in Pakistan, nor a Hindu army to protect Moslems in Hindustan. That did not bother Jinnah...
...record is not entirely favorable. Tutorial has been left behind in the rush. The House System has not fulfilled its potentialities, and personal contact between student and instructor is at a minimum. Although these shortcomings should not be accepted complacently, in the final accounting, the academic year 1946-47 has been one in which Harvard has demonstrated its vitality. Its capacity has been strained, but the strain has only served to demonstrate a reserve of energy that is not called upon in ordinary years...
What was needed, said Major General Oliver P. Echols (retired), Aircraft Industries Association president, was modernization of antiquated aviation legislation and a five-year production program which would permit planemakers to plan far enough ahead. Minimum security for the U.S., he said, called for production of 5,780 military planes a year. A minimum of 3,000 to 5,000 was needed to assure the industry's survival. An air policy board was necessary to do the overall planning, make recommendations to Congress. The planemakers had stated their case. The next move was up to Congress...