Word: unificationism
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Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert ("31-Knot") Burke, 49, Commander, U.S. Cruiser Division 5, earned his nickname early in the Pacific war as commander of the 23rd ("Little Beaver") Destroyer Squadron. His invariable reply to battle movement orders: "Am proceeding at 31 knots." Later promoted to captain and chief of staff...
Matthews likes to say that his outstanding job for the Navy was to get Admiral Forrest Sherman to run it. He also managed to weather some roaring storms and rough sailing. He enraged his sea dogs by recommending the firing of Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations...
Army v. Navy. Unification of the armed services has made even less progress in Siam than in the U.S. In the two decades since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, political control has oscillated violently between the champions of either its army or its navy. The last successful Siamese coup in...
The intervention of the Chinese Communists had made unification of Korea "militarily difficult, if not impossible," said Acheson. But U.N. "forces were not put into Korea to do that when they went in in June," he insisted.
Anybody who had expected otherwise, who had looked for one of the Joint Chiefs to stray from the reservation, overlooked the character of the military mind and the nature of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Even if some of them have been personally inclined to endorse MacArthur's program...