Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic pattern of warfare has changed drastically, and is continuing to change. Though there has been no formal declaration of war anywhere since World War II, the Pentagon counts 164 "internationally significant outbreaks of violence" in the past eight years alone. The U.S. has had to rush troops to Thailand and Lebanon to relieve external pressures, to Panama and the Dominican Republic to counter insurrection from within. It has confronted mortal challenge in Cuba and Berlin. Where the choice once seemed to be between peace and universal conflagration, the world is now experiencing a series of bloodletting skirmishes instead...
...Still, the Seventh Army is a political tool as well as a military one, and few observers outside of the Army are convinced that it has to stay at its present strength of 210,000 men in order to be effective. Under pressures from the Viet Nam war, the Pentagon has already ordered a "drawdown" of 30,000 officers and specialists from Europe', may yet have to withdraw whole combat contingents. But no pull-out is in sight that would bring into question the U.S. commitment to defend Europe-unless the Russians agree to pull their forces...
...Strange McNamara. Its message not only had little to do with military hardware, but, even more surprising, was fundamentally concerned with the suffering majority of mankind-a subject that has not conspicuously engaged the Secretary's attention or exactly matched his image during his five years at the Pentagon...
Speaking at Vladivostok, where he presented an Order of Lenin for economic achievement, Brezhnev spouted a violent torrent of abuse at the U.S. for its stand in Viet Nam. Americans, he said, were "beating all records for cruelty and cynicism. Can we forget even for a minute that the Pentagon's air pirates, murderers and arsonists carry out criminal raids daily on the towns and villages of a fraternal socialist country? Let the American imperialists understand that they will collide with the most tangible demonstration of the combat solidarity of revolutionaries...
...some distance and zero in electronically. In the duels so far, the MIGs have been unwilling to play that game, are ducking in close where missiles are virtually useless. An advanced Phantom with integral cannons is under development; in the meantime, for all the U.S. success thus far, the Pentagon at week's end prudently dispatched a team to try to improve the U.S. pilots' tactical use of Sidewinders and Sparrows in the emergent...