Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pinned down, none of the radicals and their sympathizers will admit that the nation, in the presence of ruthless enemies, can afford to disband its armed forces. But the question of who is to man the armed forces is left unanswered. The traditional precept of a broad-based citizen soldier army, with the dangers and sacrifices of military duty shared equally by all able-bodied men, is conveniently forgotten. There is no hue and cry to make the draft law fair and equitable or to provide an acceptable substitute for ROTC, if needed a substitute can be found...
...There is no acceptable program in existence at this time to substitute for ROTC as a broad-based source of college educated citizen-soldier leaders for our armed forces. About 45 per cent of all Army officers currently on active duty are ROTC graduates; 65 per cent of our Ist lieutenants and 85 per cent of our 2nd lieutenants come from the ROTC program. The Army needs 18,000 new 2nd lieutenants each year to meet normal attrition. We met that goal last year and expect to meet it again this year. For some years before that, we had serious...
Between the wars, the United States kept the ROTC-trained reservist as the key figure in the nation's defenses, maintaining the tradition of the civilian soldier dating back to the Minute-men of 1775. But the ROTC system was not merely romantic; it was also reasonably successful. When war came in 1941, a reserve of over 56,000 ROTC graduates was available for active duty to permit a more rapid mobilization of the nation...
...judgment Eisenhower arrives at is a kind of professional soldier's consensus: 1) The Germans did all they could and then some, and in the end brought off a small military miracle: "a beaten and demoralized army that was still fighting." 2) The Allies, given their two-to-one power advantage, would have had to blunder badly to lose...
Holdup Bait. Young Eisenhower, who was graduated from West Point the day of the Normandy invasion and who spent his graduation leave in Father's headquarters, has not only pored over the documents but revisited the battlefields. He has interviewed soldiers from both sides and all echelons, from squad leaders up to Field Marshal Montgomery. For the human or Willie-and-Joe side of war, though, the reader will still have to go to the likes of Cornelius Ryan (The Last Battle). Eisenhower earned a master's degree in English from Columbia, while his father was university president...