Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy commanders are only too keenly aware of the growing strength and aggressiveness of the Soviet navy. Russian ships shadow every NATO maneuver, break into allied formations, and show the red flag in the world's most sensitive trouble spots. Last week the Pentagon received reassurance of sorts. According to the 1968-69 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships, the longtime civilian authority on all the world's navies, "Soviet maritime strategy is defensive or containing rather than provoking or aggressive...
Since Robert S. McNamara left the Pentagon six months ago to become president of the World Bank, he has obeyed a self-imposed rule of silence on matters concerning the bank.* He refused all on-the-record interviews, turned down scores of invitations to make public speeches. Instead, McNamara quietly set about learning the ins and outs of his new job, studying the role of the World Bank and planning new ways of enhancing its importance. First off, he appointed task forces of bank specialists to survey present international economic problems and future possibilities. While the task forces worked, McNamara...
Mexican Standoff. And yet, what too many of his critics have failed to see is that this paragon late of the Pentagon is far from being narrow or insensitive. He can stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long...
...were to respond to the Soviet anti-ballistic-missile system with a massive ABM system of its own, it would fall again into the "action-reaction phenomenon," he contends. The Johnson Administration obviously agrees; the Pentagon now plans to build only the "thin" anti-Chinese defense ABM screen that McNamara proposed (TIME, July 5). He adds: "The blunt fact remains that if we had had more accurate in formation [in 1961] about planned Soviet strategic forces, we simply would not have needed to build as large a nuclear arsenal as we have today...
...Pentagon had always found it very hard to get first-rate scientists," Hersh said, "but with Kennedy's glamor and the new policy of seeking alternative military responses to nuclear weapons, the government found it easier to get first-rate scientists like Watson...He could take a particular problem, suggest lines for more fruitful investigation, and save the military researchers months of work as well as a great deal of money...