Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon analysts, who color the inviolate area red on their war maps, have pinpointed some 30 prime targets within the envelope, an enclave anchored by the Red River town of Yen Bai in the northwest, crucial harbor ports of Haiphong and Cam Pha in the northeast and Thanh Hoa at the southern apex. Around Hanoi are a thermal power plant, an engineering facility, key bridges and the Phuc Yen airfield, where Chinese-supplied MIG-17s are based. In addition to its vast port, Haiphong's potential targets include two power plants, two cement factories, two airfields and three storage...
...predictably the most hazardous of the air war, for it is there that the North Vietnamese have concentrated the bulk of their antiaircraft guns and SAM sites. More often than not, a key target must be cleared all the way through the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon before the pilots take off. The pilots call the JCS strikes "doomsday missions" because, as Air Force Captain Glenn R. Magathan of Chicago explains, "there's no way in and no way out without flak, and when you get there, they are all stirred up and mad as hornets...
...doing anything new -- the difference is that we're doing it," Alain C. Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense, said yesterday of the Pentagon regime of Robert S. McNamara...
Enthoven, a Ph.D. who joined the Defense Department as a 29-year-old "whiz kid" in 1960, described McNamara's approach to Pentagon planning and management at the Business School's Public Affairs Forum...
Before McNamara, Enthoven said, there was a lack of coordination between the Pentagon's military planners and budget planners. In the past this had led to conflicting points of view between the two groups and prevention of "systematic rational ways of making choices," Enthoven explained...