Word: unificationism
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The U.S. came out of World War II with its tradition of separate services intact, but the war's major lesson was the need for some measure of armed forces unification. The Army generally supported the unification idea-especially the Army Air Force, because in working out unification, the...
The National Security Act of 1947 was aimed at reconciling irreconcilable views, and the result was admittedly a compromise. The act tried for unification, yet it required that the services-three instead of the wartime two-be "administered as individual executive departments." The Department of Defense was created, with a...
The flaws in such a military structure showed up almost immediately, and the Pentagon has undergone a bewildering succession of committee surveys, reorganization plans, and legislative attempts to plug up the holes in the system. But all the efforts to strengthen Defense Department control over the separate services have, in...
"It is plain," he argues, "that there can be no Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe unless this entire area can be removed as an object of military rivalry of the great powers . . . Finally, the question is not just whether Moscow 'wants' German unification. It is a question of...
Too Much, Too Soon. By then, Larry Norstad was a marked man. In 1946 General Dwight Eisenhower insisted on Norstad as War Department director of plans and operations. As such, he was the Army's representative in the dickering that preceded unification of the armed services, and with the...