Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With three-quarters of the earth's surface covered by water, with the SAC headed for obsolescence by guided missiles, a single military service would be a naval service using ship and airborne rockets and guided missiles, sea and air launched...
LeMay and Partridge are dedicated and intelligent officers. It is Curt LeMay's duty to fight for an absolutely unbeatable SAC, with hundreds of intercontinental bombers that can fly at twice the speed of sound at such altitude that the pilots can see the Milky Way at high noon. It is Pat Partridge's duty to strive for an absolutely impenetrable air defense screen (even if in so doing he seems to contradict LeMay's doctrine that there is no complete defense against bombers). But LeMay and Partridge are commanders with specific and therefore limited functions...
...SAC kept the world from unlimited war, but by reason of its own massive power-and a political decision by President Truman-it could answer Korea's limited challenge only in the old way (by conventional bombs). Nor did the Navy have all the answers, even though peninsular warfare is traditionally the Navy's meat. Item: at this critical moment, the Navy had no aircraft to meet the Russian MIG, had to make the humiliating decision to stay out of MIG Alley. (While the Air Force F-86s knocked MIGs out at a rate...
...April 30. the U.S. had produced only 78 intercontinental jet-powered B-52 bombers, and SAC had been obliged to delay acceptance of 31 of these because they had a defective turbine in the electrical system, "for which we now have a solution...
Bolstering Wilson's point, another top-level Administration spokesman declared that to give LeMay everything he wants for SAC (including a force of 1,800 B-525 in 1958 rather than the 500 now planned) would require an immediate increase of $55 billion in SAC appropriations. "Curt LeMay," said the spokesman half in admiration, "thinks only SAC...