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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Shoup maintains that many U.S. officers saw the Viet Nam war as a chance to field-test new weapons and season a generation of career soldiers, the experience seems more an example of military?and political?misjudgment than of calculated aggressiveness. The military, which oversold Lyndon Johnson on the efficiency of air power against North Viet Nam, can be faulted; so can the State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MILITARY: SERVANT OR MASTER OF POLICY? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...working order. Some projects turn out well, of course, such as the SR-71 reconnaissance plane (see SCIENCE). But the new tank program is a mess, with three separate projects years behind schedule and far in the red. The M-16 rifle now in use in Viet Nam is a sound weapon, but it went into full production inexcusably late. For a time the Communists, with their new Russian-designed AK-47 assault rifles, had better personal weapons than the forces of the most advanced nation in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MILITARY: SERVANT OR MASTER OF POLICY? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...would soon be broke or all its citizens would be huddling in a continent-wide bomb shelter?or both. With defense spending running at $80 billion, and with the services requesting enough in new weapons to offset most of the savings that would be achieved by peace in Viet Nam, there must obviously be some hard thinking about where to draw the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MILITARY: SERVANT OR MASTER OF POLICY? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...sheer size of the military is one indication. In addition to the forces in and around Viet Nam, the U.S. has some 900,000 servicemen stationed elsewhere abroad. It has defense agreements of varying nature with 48 nations. It maintains some 400 major installations abroad, in addition to the 476 at home. Altogether, there are 3,400,000 Americans in uniform, plus nearly 1,000,000 paid reservists. Few responsible critics argue that this force should be instantly reduced. But once the war in Viet Nam is ended, selective and gradual reductions at home and in such places as Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MILITARY: SERVANT OR MASTER OF POLICY? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

With Korea and Viet Nam, Wheeler thinks that "the American people are understandably wondering why we have to be involved in other nations' security affairs." The result, Wheeler believes, is that "Americans feel like saying 'Let everyone take care of themselves. We have done it long enough for them.' " Another cause of disquiet, he concedes, is the fact that "Viet Nam has gone on so long" with no clear-cut outcome. "This frustration is why people are hitting out at the nearest hitching post, much as the students strike at the universities when that is really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Military View--From the Top and from the Ranks | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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