Word: nato
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...capable of being deployed within or without the country on short notices for crisis duty. Key units include two brigades (8,500 men) of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division (which helped quell the Detroit riots last summer) stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., and three outfits committed to NATO exigencies: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions (14,500 men each) at Fort Hood, Texas, and the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, 14,300 strong at Fort Carson, Colo...
...responsible, he believes that an unsatisfactory outcome of the conflict there could well lead to World War III. In any case, far more than Viet Nam will be at stake during Clark Clifford's tenure as Secretary of Defense. If he can help to reduce the disarray in NATO and other U.S. alliances, and to restore the amity that once existed between Capitol Hill and the White House, he will have done much to reweave the badly rent fabric of national unity...
Ready Baclc-Up. The troops now being sent are from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and the Marine Corps' 5th Division-the most mobile and professional outfits remaining in the U.S.-based strategic Reserve. This leaves intact just three regular Army divisions-committed to NATO and not organized for fast deployment to underdeveloped countries-plus most of a Marine division and six Army brigades dispersed from Alaska to the Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between...
Outflanking NATO. In the Mediterranean, the impact of the Soviet fleet has been particularly dramatic. Where Russia had only half a dozen ships a year ago, it now has 46 ships, almost as many as the 50-ship U.S. fleet, which for years had made the "Med" practically an American lake. Many of the Soviet ships came through the Dardanelles during the Six-Day War, and their arrival helped persuade the Israelis to accept a ceasefire. The Soviets have enhanced their new image as the protector of their Arab allies by keeping a few ships in Alexandria and Port Said...
...main Soviet objective is to outflank NATO's land-based defenses?a goal that the Russian navy has partial ly reached by penetrating the Mediterranean. In a report to the Western European Union last November, Dutch Delegate Frans Goedhart warned: "It is no longer correct to speak of the 'danger' of the Soviet Union outflanking the NATO southern flank. This 'danger' has become a reality." To the north, the Russians have also turned the Baltic into a virtual Red Sea on which their warships now outnumber NATO forces...