Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damned uncomfortable about as Holloway and his men, and behind them the nation, moved into the third week of the nlp-and-tuck Middle East crisis, and it was still too soon to guess whether Holloway was headed for success or failure. "The irony of it," as a Pentagon officer put it, "is that he can fail greatly but only succeed quietly." But already Admiral Holloway and his men, by their show of great power and great restraint, have laid out some fundamental guidelines for their countrymen and their allies on Lebanon's shifting sands...
...Staff-Chairman Nathan Twining, the Navy's Arleigh Burke, the Air Force's Thomas Dresser White, the Army's Acting Chief Lyman Lemnitzer (his chief, Maxwell Taylor, was on the West Coast on an inspection trip), the Marine Corps' Randolph Pate. The word from the Pentagon duty officers: the government of Iraq had been overthrown. The anticipation-it was almost an assumption-of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: the pro-U.S. government of Lebanon would now request U.S. military protection, would...
Hours in advance of the President's decision, a second wave of telephone calls went out from the Pentagon. Before sunup more than 50 plans officers of all services were at their desks. When the Navy's Arleigh Burke steamed into his office at 7:30 a.m., he asked his staff for a full briefing, got it; on an order from Burke his staff began carting in briefcases and red folders containing long-prepared, frequently tested contingency war plans for the Middle East. Outline of the J.C.S. contingency plan for Lebanon: 1) move about 5,000 Marines...
...reports told everything the U.S. knew to that moment about the coup, and estimated what its effects might be on such Western allies as Jordan and Lebanon. Since the predawn alarm was sounded by the duty officers at the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, staffers had been at work getting the material ready for presidential decision. In the silence of his White House office, the President of the U.S. knew in Monday's early hours that he must act in time...
...less liable to be involved in a major way than if we hesitate now and become involved later. I realize the potentialities, and naturally, when I go into this thing I am prepared to go through with it." General Twining, speaking for the Joint Chiefs, supplied the clincher: The Pentagon leaders, he said, "are unanimous in their opinion that this is the only sound course of action...