Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mustered out of the service, Mulliken may have thought that his experience with war had ended. Not so. He went on to cover, as a LIFE reporter, the Hungarian revolution, the Lebanon and Suez crises, the Congo uprising and the Viet Nam War. He has been TIME's Pentagon correspondent since...
...augment the men in combat, the draft call-mostly for the Army-has reached 40,200 a month,* twelve times the level of August 1964. To train the ever-swelling flood of recruits, the Army is expanding half a dozen U.S. bases. To supply its fighting men, the Pentagon has stepped up its shopping for almost every conceivable commodity from beans to bazookas, reopened defense plants that have lain idle for a decade, rushed in scarce equipment from units all over the world. With 45% of its strength deployed overseas.† the Army is prepared at the crack...
...fantasy, he said, depends on the hydrogen bomb. And because of the bomb "a totalitarian system"--composed of the AEC, the CIA, and the Pentagon--"dedicated to the welfare of its totalitarian weapons," has been "superimposed on our democratic system...
This, he said, is why the men in Washington regard China as the ultimate enemy in Vietnam: "How the Pentagon would like China to enter the war so they could blast out large sections of her cities...
...other top policy makers have been largely unaware of the specific arrangments made by the Defense Department with the NATO allies." In fact, the President's Press Secretary told newsmen last week that the question of mounting was "a technical matter" which should be referred to the Pentagon...