Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, surveyed the war in Viet Nam last week (see THE WORLD), a storm was brewing in Washington over the handling of U.S. policy toward that strife-torn little country. It involved most of the Pentagon and an influential clique in the State Department...
...account the threat of a massive Buddhist uprising against Diem. Lodge was asked for his comments. Importantly, several of the courses of action included the possibility of a U.S.-backed coup to depose President Diem; more importantly, the message was not shown (as it should have been) to a Pentagon official high enough to understand its explosive implications. If it had been, it probably never would have left Washington...
Fight the War. The cable focused attention on a longtime dispute in Washington over policy toward South Viet Nam. The Pentagon is convinced that the U.S.-financed war ($1,500,000 daily, 14,000 military advisers) is being won. On that basis, the military believes that any attempt to overthrow the Diem government, no matter how obnoxious it might seem, would only send more U.S. blood (over 100 Americans have lost their lives in the war) and money down the drain. Thus the Pentagon's position has been: fight against the Communists, not against the Diem regime...
...over throwing the heavy-handed Diem regime than in pushing the war against the Viet Cong. Among the leaders of the State Department clique is Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. His friends at the State Department admire him as an independent thinker; his Pentagon critics have dubbed him "the field marshal" because, they say, he tries to run the whole military-political war in Viet
...REPORTS: MCNAMARA AND THE PENTAGON (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The controversial Secretary of Defense discusses the changes he has brought to the Defense Department...