Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State of Mind." The burden of running a global army rests on the cool, thoughtful officer who occupies Room 3-E-668 in the Pentagon. General Harold Keith Johnson, 53, the 24th U.S. Army Chief of Staff-and the youngest to be appointed since Douglas Mac-Arthur-is a team man of austere, probing intelligence in the managerial mold of McNamara's Pentagon. "Like McNamara," says a Defense Department aide, "Johnson is a computer. But he is a friendly computer...
...Army Chief of Staff also represents a breed that is now rare in the Pentagon-the battlefield hero. From infantry combat in the thick of two Asian wars, handsome "Johnny" Johnson came away with a dazzle of decorations and the single-minded conviction that the American soldier must be hardier, wilier and brainier than ever before if he is to win the kind of war that the U.S. faces in Asia today. "Johnson's spirit of intellect and leadership," says the 1st Air-Cavalry's Brigadier General Richard Knowles, "is felt by every private in Viet...
...Army on Bataan, Johnson swore that no troops he might ever command again would go into battle unprepared for the war they would have to fight. Again, in October 1950, moving among dazed, defeated soldiers in Korea, he vowed not to be bound by the "school solution." In the Pentagon, Johnson has labored devotedly to instill those lessons. Cigar-chomping Army Vice Chief of Staff "Abe" Abrams, an iron-nerved commander who led Patton's tanks to relieve the siege of Bastogne, calls him "the toughest man I have ever known." Moreover, General Johnson expects the other...
...training centers. Three new 7,500-man infantry brigades are being organized. At Fort Riley, Kans., the Army will activate the brand-new, 14,000-man 9th Infantry Division. More than 700 smaller units are taking shape. Twenty-nine additional Army helicopter companies are sprouting rotors. Last week the Pentagon announced plans for at least one more chopper-supported airmobile division...
...years he was picked for the high-powered job of Chief of Staff of NATO's Central Army Group in West Germany. In 1960 he returned to the U.S. as boss of his alma mater, the Staff College at Leavenworth. Three years later, Johnson was ordered to the Pentagon, became deputy chief of staff for military operations, a post in which he helped pave the way for the buildup...